Gardai are appealing for witnesses after a woman in her early 60s was killed in a car crash in Birr in Co. Offaly yesterday morning.

The collision happened at 11:20am on the N52 Kilcormac to Tullamore road just outside Kilcormac, when a car collided with a transport lorry.

Another woman in the car - also in her sixties - and the driver of the lorry weren't injured.

Gardai in Birr are now appealing for any witnesses to come forward.