The mother of RTE broadcaster Marty Morrissey died after her car crashed into a field "on a very bad night storm-wise" while she was en-route to the safety of her son, an inquest has heard.
Clare Coroner’s court heard how Peggy Morrissey died after she had travelled to try meet her son to stay with him at the Old Ground hotel in Ennis on the night of December 6th last year as Storm Barra was due to hit the west coast of Clare the following day.
In a deposition, Mr Morrissey told the coroner’s court that he last spoke to Peggy at 11.36pm on December 6th by phone before she set off in her Silver Renault Clio and the two arranged that they would meet at the village of Inagh before journeying onto Ennis.
