20,000 protest decision not to prosecute Halvey

MORE than 20,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to reverse his decision to drop a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a Co Limerick schoolboy brought against former rugby international, Eddie Halvey.

The petition was organised by the family of Kevin Walsh, 16, from Bruff, Co Limerick, who lost his life on April 1, 2006, in a road accident involving a vehicle driven by Mr Halvey.

He still faces a drink driving charge arising out of the same road crash, which happened near Toomevara.