Overview
- Scarlett Faulkner, a Limerick woman in her 20s, was found with catastrophic head injuries on the R494 near Birdhill at about 5:30pm Saturday.
- Gardaí believe her car was forced off the road and that two people pulled her out and attacked her with weapons, with one believed to be an axe.
- Investigators are tracking a grey 162 Ford Transit van and a blue 161 Volkswagen Touran seen driving in convoy or dangerously between 4:30pm and 5:30pm around Birdhill and nearby townlands.
- Officers ask anyone who drove the R494 between 5pm and 6pm to share dash-cam footage with Nenagh Garda Station or the Garda Confidential Line, and they aim to identify several people seen in circulating clips.
- The mother of one remains in critical care at Cork University Hospital after an airlift from the scene, as her sister pleads with people to delete graphic hospital photos from social media.