Woman had given birth to first child the day before she was killed in M8 crash

The young woman who died when the car she was in was hit by a truck on the M8 motorway yesterday had just taken a call giving her good news about her newborn baby.

Nicola Kenny, aged 26 and from Thurles in Co Tipperary, had only just given birth for the first time on Sunday and was being driven up to Dublin by her mother Ann after her little baby Lily-Rose was transferred up to Temple Street hospital because of health worries.