Mother to take case to Garda Ombudsman

THE mother of a young man who died after being hit by a car driven by an off-duty garda said she intended to take the case to the Garda Ombudsman.

Christine O’Toole was speaking after the inquest into the death of her son, Derek, which heard that Garda Damien Carey had drunk three pints of stout and two bottles of beer on the night his car hit the deceased.

Derek O’Toole, 24, from Shancastle Drive, Clondalkin, west Dublin, had taken six pints of beer over the night and was lying on the Main Road in Lucan in the early hours of March 4 last when he was struck.