Mother over limit before fatal crash, inquest told

A young mother who was involved in a double fatal car crash was over the legal alcohol limit when she drove in the wrong direction on a dual carriageway.

An inquest in Cork yesterday heard that other motorists flashed warning lights at her oncoming vehicle just seconds before the head-on collision on the outskirts of Cork city last year.

Aoife Callanan, aged 25, from Coolroe Heights, Ballincollig, Cork, and John Joe Galvin, 17, from Hilltown, Ballymitty, Co Wexford, both died instantly when her car struck his on the N25 Cork-Midleton road at Courtstown, Little Island, at around 12 midnight on Mar 18.