Top Irish show jumper’s wife killed in road traffic accident

The wife of Irish show jumper Captain David O’Brien has died in a road traffic accident.

Tracey O’Brien, 30, who was seven months pregnant, died last Thursday, along with her unborn child, when her 4×4 car collided with a truck in Dunboyne, Co Meath.

Mrs O’Brien lived in Clonlyon in Meath with her husband David, who rides with the Army Equitation School.

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