8 dead in week of carnage on roads

EIGHT people have now died, four of them pedestrians, in a Christmas week of carnage on the country’s roads.

The latest fatality, a pedestrian killed after being hit by a lorry in Co Cork, brings to 186 the number of people killed on the country’s roads this year.

In that accident, the man in his 30s, named locally as Liam Curtin, was struck by the lorry on the Ringaskiddy Road at approximately 7am.