A round-up of today's regional news stories in brief
Fatal car crash near Foxford
A postmortem has been carried out on a man from Foxford, Co Mayo, who was killed when his car went out of control and hit concrete road fencing, writes Tom Shiel.
The dead man has been named as Martin Boyle (26) from Swinford Road, Foxford.
He died in the single-vehicle impact at about 1am yesterday at Belgarrow on the main Swinford to Foxford road, not far from his home.
Mr Boyle, the eldest in a family of four, died at the wheel of the car he was driving.
A truck driver by occupation, he had only recently returned to Ireland from working in Australia.
He is survived by his parents, Oliver and Jean Boyle, and three younger sisters.
Fireworks guaranteed in Letterkenny
Sparks will fly in Letterkenny on Friday when it hosts a fireworks display by a leading light of the pyrotechnics world, writes Pamela Duncan.
Pierre-Alain Hubert, considered to be one of the world’s great pyrotechnic artists, will put on his first Irish display in what organisers are describing as a “spectacular once-off outdoor pyrotechnics, music and light show”. Mr Hubert will base his display on a story from Celtic mythology.
“Its a fairytale, not really a fireworks display,” Mr Hubert said. The free event can be viewed from An Grianán Theatre Car Park and the front of the Cultural Centre this Friday, December 11th, at 7pm.
Store owner defiant despite huge fire
A Limerick businessman has vowed to fill customers’ Christmas orders after a fire destroyed his furniture store.
Thirteen fire brigade units from Limerick and Clare spent hours fighting a fire at Tony Cowell’s furniture business at Eastway business park early yesterday. The alarm was raised shortly before 2am when the blaze erupted at the store, located on the Ballysimon Road.
Firefighters who battled the blaze for five hours were praised for preventing the fire from spreading to the neighbouring Wickes DIY store, which opened in October of last year and employs about 40 people.
An investigation was under way yesterday to determine the cause of the fire.