{"id":482637,"date":"2026-05-13T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482637\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:37:12","slug":"woman-20s-dies-after-two-car-collision-in-tipperary-named-locally-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482637\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (20s) dies after two-car collision in Tipperary named locally \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman in her 20s has died following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\">road<\/a> crash in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\">Tipperary<\/a> on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman, named locally as Laura Kennedy from Burgess died in the two-car collision on the Nenagh to Dromineer Road R495 at  about 9.00pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She was the driver of one of the cars and was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Her body was later taken to University Hospital Limerick where a postmortem examination will be carried out in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The coroner has been notified. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road is currently closed to allow for a technical examination to take place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kennedy was well known in GAA circles in the area and was due to celebrate her 21st birthday in a couple of weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Locals said Kennedy and her twin sister Aishling were very accomplished at sport, particularly cross country running and camogie, which she played with her club Burgess Duharra Camogie Club  along with Tipperary development camogie squads.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> 9pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses. Any road users who may have camera footage, including dashcam, and were travelling on the Nenagh to Dromineer Road between 8.15pm and 9.15pm on Tuesday, are asked to make it available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Nenagh Garda station on 067 50450, the Garda confidential line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 20s has died following a road crash in Co Tipperary on Tuesday. The woman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,11697,2121,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-482637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-road-safety","23":"tag-tipperary","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116567542904056106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}