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THE county’s roads have claimed their ninth life this year as a 75-year- old woman was knocked down and killed as she crossed the road at Dar- ragh, outside Ennis, on Sunday.
Mary McGuane died after she was struck by a motorbike about five miles outside Ennis, on the main En- nis/Kilrush road, at around 12 noon.
Emergency services and family members arrived at the scene within minutes but efforts to resuscitate Ms McGuane failed and she died later at Ennis General Hospital.
The driver of the motorcycle, who hails from Ennis and who was travel- ling in the direction of Kilrush, was unhurt in the collision.
Itis believed Mrs McGuane was on
her way to visit neighbours and was crossing the road when the accident Clee u Keren
A widow, she was due to celebrate her 76th birthday next month. Her husband ‘Tom passed away I1 years ago. She is survived by four daugh- ters Chris, Anne, Margaret and Bridget, son Michael, son-in-laws Kieran (McNamara), Michael (Ryan) and David (Bradley) and several grandchildren.
She was born into a farming fam- ily in Darragh and lived there all her Tate
‘“She’s crossing that road since she was a child. The odds are she was going visiting when the accident took place,” a family member told