DPP considers retrial as jury fails to agree on firefighter and garda deaths

THE Director of Public Prosecutions will decide whether a 20-year-old Kerry motorist will be retried on a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a garda and a firefighter after a jury at Limerick Circuit Court yesterday could not reach a verdict.

Niall Shannon, from Lenammore, Ballylongford, denied a charge of dangerous driving causing the deaths of Garda Brian Kelleher and firefighter Mike Liston. He also pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving with excess alcohol

He was found guilty by the jury of the drink-driving charge and sentencing was adjourned by Judge Carroll Moran to October 31.