Priest dies in Kilkenny road accident

The man who died on Friday in a fatal road collision in Co Kilkenny has been named as Father Edward Murphy.

The man who died on Friday in a fatal road collision in Co Kilkenny has been named as Fr Edward Murphy.

Fr Murphy, who was originally from England and in his late 50s, was a parish priest in Cambridgeshire.

He died when the car he was driving and a tractor, towing a trailer, were in collision on the M9 motorway on Friday afternoon.

He had been on his way to visit family in the South East of Ireland.