Child injured in 'serious incident' in Tullamore

A child is understood to have been seriously injured in a road incident outside Tullamore earlier today (Friday).

A post on the 'Garda Síochána Laois Offaly' Facebook page reported that Tullamore Gardaí and Offaly Roads Policing attended the scene "of a serious incident" this morning. 

The post said that a young child had been "seriously injured" and that a motorists had been detected travelling at 133km per hour in an 80km zone.

Attempts to contact a Garda spokesperson in Tullamore for more details this afternoon were unsuccessful at the time of writing.