Four women die on roads over weekend

The Kilkenny crash, involving a car and a pedestrian, occurred at around 9pm on the N76 at Westcourt Demesne in Callan. File picture

Four women were killed following weekend road crashes, with the death of a woman on Monday from injuries after being struck by a car in Kilkenny on Friday adding to three on Sunday.

As the names of two women killed in a crash near Mallow in Cork on Sunday emerged, gardaí in Kilkenny renewed an appeal for witnesses to Friday night’s incident on the N76 at Westcourt Demesne in Callan after the death of a woman who was seriously injured in that incident.