Ballingeary crash victims had been attending funerals before tragic collision occurred

Flowers left in the West Cork village of Ballingeary where the fatal accident occured. Picture Dan Linehan

The woman who died and two others who were injured following a car collision in the Cork village of Ballingeary yesterday had been returning home after attending two funerals in the area.

Gobnait Twomey (51) died in the tragedy as she walked home from one funeral, while it has emerged her mother was pushed to safety by a man who had been attending a second funeral nearby.