Gardaí name Co Galway road accident victim

The 44-year-old woman who died in a road accident in Co Galway yesterday evening has been named.

Veronica Finnegan, from Lisheen, was killed when the car she was driving ploughed into a river in Patch, near Glennamaddy.

No other vehicles were involved, but the accident occurred on a stretch of road where there have been a number of fatal accidents in recent years.