Baby remains in critical condition after Clare road crash

A four-month-old baby remains in a critical condition following a traffic collision in Co Clare on Saturday.

The baby was airlifted from the scene along with her mother who sustained a serious head injury in the crash. Both were flown to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) but the baby was transferred to a Dublin hospital for specialist treatment.

The two-car head-on collision occurred at around 5pm on the Ennis to Kilrush road at Glaun, Lissycasey. There were two males with the mother and baby in one car and just the driver, an elderly woman, in the second vehicle. Fire and ambulance crews from Ennis and Kilrush attended the scene along with several Garda units. Ambulance paramedics requested the Emergency Aeromedical Service air ambulance to airlift the mother and baby to hospital.