Couple killed in Cork crash 'were devoted to each other'

Emergency services on the N28 near Ringaskiddy Co Cork, where JP and Berna Allen both died.  Picture: Howard Crowdy

Tributes have been paid to an elderly couple who were killed in a horrific multi-vehicle crash in Cork.

John Patrick (JP or John) Allen, 83, and his wife, Berna (Bernadette), 82, died when the car he was driving was involved in a head-on collision with a car transporter on a stretch of the N28, between the Shannon Park roundabout and Shanbally village on Tuesday morning.