‘Sorry’ said after fatal crash, court hears

AFTER a Kerry-registered Audi crashed into an accident scene killing a garda and a firefighter, one person emerged from the passenger side of the vehicle saying: “Sorry about that lads,” Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.

Niall Shannon, aged 20, of Lenamore, Ballylongfod, has denied dangerous driving when under the influence of alcohol, causing the deaths of Garda Brian Kelleher, aged 46 and Foynes firefighter, Mike Liston, aged 47.

On the third day of the trial, firefighter, Neil Daly, recalled taking up traffic control duty on the Askeaton side of a road traffic accident at Barrigone on February 25, 2007.