Road fatality the third to hit Limerick family

A MAN who died when struck by a car near Newcastle West on Sunday evening lost a sister and a nephew in a road accident in America less than five years ago, it has emerged.

Mike Scanlon, 51, of Lower Direen, Athea, was helping clear debris from the N21 at Sweeps Cross, after an earlier minor accident, when he was hit by a car at around 7.30pm.

The deceased worked for many years in IT in America but returned, to retire in Athea, and lived near his widowed mother, Ms Hannah Scanlon, aged 87.