Family of journalism student killed in hit-and-run say they were told to leave DPP offices
Joe Drennan was in his final year of a journalism degree at the University of Limerick when he was killed after being struck by a car in October 2023.
The 21-year-old from Co Laois was waiting for a bus near the university at the time.
The driver of the car, now 21-year-old Kieran Fogarty of Ballinacurra Weston in Limerick, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death.
The Dáil heard on Tuesday that he was banned from driving at the time. Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy said the driver had been travelling at more than 120 kilometres per hour.
His sentence is to run concurrently with a separate firearm sentence he had received.
The Drennan family believe this decision means Fogarty will not serve an hour in prison specifically related to the death of the promising journalism student.
It has called for consecutive sentencing as standard in cases of multiple serious offences where there has been a loss of life.
This would likely require a change of legislation which, even if enacted, could…
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