A North Cork woman has told how her family were left devastated after her husband was killed in a hit and run incident as he was walking back to his hotel in Cork city to catch a flight home to spend Christmas with them.
Helen Murphy Lawlor from Millstreet told how her life and the lives of her three children, Jennifer (20), Samuel (16) and Rebecca (14) were changed irrevocably when her husband, Dr Martin Lawlor (49) was killed in Cork.
A consultant psychiatrist, Dr Lawlor worked with the HSE in Cork but lived in Manchester with his family and was returning to Cork Airport to get a flight back to the UK when he was killed on Kinsale Road on December 15, 2018.
A 75-year-old taxi driver has been jailed for four years for failing to remain at the scene of a road crash in which a Kerry-born consultant psychiatrist was killed as he walked home to his hotel from a Christmas party.
Denis McSweeney from Pouladuff Road, Ballyphehane in Cork pleaded guilty to four charges relating to a road traffic collision which claimed the life of Tralee native, Dr Martin Lawlor (49) on the Kinsale Road in Cork on December 15th 2018.
Mr McSweeney pleaded guilty to failing to give appropriate information to gardaí, failing to keep the vehicle at or near the occurrence, failing to report an occurrence and failing to stop his vehicle after an occurrence.