Calls for road safety upgrade after tragic crashes claim four lives

Politicians in Cork and Waterford have called upon the authority responsible for Ireland’s main routes to do more to improve the safety of a national road on which four people have died in two crashes over the space of a day.

A man was killed in a two-car collision yesterday at about 8am on the N72 road west of Fermoy, Co Cork.

The driver was heading in the direction of Mallow when his car collided with a 4X4 vehicle. The driver and two passengers in the 4X4 were taken to Cork University Hospital.