Call for change to junction after cyclist dies in accident

The sister of a woman cyclist who died in a traffic accident in Co Kerry last week is demanding the road authorities carry out urgent improvements to a notorious stretch of a bypass road.

Annette Mannix, aged 48, had taken up cycling just four weeks prior to the accident on the Killarney bypass.

She was with a group of 20 members of the Killarney Cycling Club at the Leiws Road junction, a short distance from her home at St Brendan’s Place when she died after an incident involving a tractor.