Three die in crashes on road safety weekend

THREE weekend fatalities have brought the number of people killed on Irish roads to 170 this year and to 15 this month.

The 27-year-old woman who died early yesterday in a single vehicle accident outside Lixnaw, Co Kerry, was named locally as Louise McKenna, the mother of a six-year-old boy. She was remembered in prayers at Masses in the area yesterday.

Her partner, Michael Conway, a well-known Kerry and Lixnaw hurler and a Labour Party candidate for Kerry County Council in the 2009 local elections, was driving the car which hit a tree a short distance outside Lixnaw. Four people were taken to hospital after the accident on the road to Abbeydorney at about 3.30am.