Teacher who died in branch accident was married six months ago

THE school teacher who died after a freak accident in which a tree branch fell on her as she walked on a Limerick street, had only recently got married, it emerged yesterday.

Maura Horgan, 57, had taught Irish at St Enda’s secondary school and was a native of Glin, Co Limerick.

She was hit by a falling branch after a passing lorry struck an overhanging part of a street-side tree at O’Connell Avenue.