President sends condolences to family

A MESSAGE of condolence from President Mary McAleese was sent to the family of Oliver Kearney, one of the two men killed in a Co Limerick road accident last Sunday, mourners at his funeral Mass heard yesterday.

Hundreds packed the church of John the Baptist in Hospital. Mourners were led by his mother Noreen and grandmother Eileen Cahill.

Oliver, 21, and his best friend, John Swords, 22, died instantly when their car struck a wall in Knocklong. They had earlier attended the christening of Mr Swords’s daughter, Alex and were going to investigate a reported break-in at Mr Swords’s home.