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Kilkenny nun named as Cork road crash victim

Sister Mairéad Murphy was 80-years-old.

GARDAÍ HAVE NAMED yesterday’s road crash victim as 80-year-old nun Sr Mairéad Murphy.

The Kilkenny-based nun died when the car she was driving collided with a lorry on the Dunmanway to Bantry road at Clounties yesterday afternoon.

A nun with the Union of Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sr Murphy was well known in the Newpark area of Kilkenny where she had lived for years.

TheJournal.ie understands that she often holidayed in her native West Cork, where the crash occurred.

The male driver of the lorry involved in the incident suffered minor injuries and was taken to Cork University Hospital for treatment. His passenger was uninjured.

Yesterday: Elderly woman killed in Cork road crash>

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