Halvey avoids jail over fatal crash

FORMER Munster and Ireland rugby player Eddie Halvey has been given a seven-month suspended sentence and disqualified from driving for seven years after pleading guilty to careless driving and drink driving following a road crash which claimed the life of a 16-year-old boy in 2006.

Halvey of Allendale Hall, South Circular Road, Limerick had admitted being under the influence of alcohol when his Land Rover collided with the back of a BMW at Coole, Toomevara, Co Tipperary, on April 1, 2006.

Teenager Kevin Walsh, of Sycamore Drive, Bruff – a back seat passenger in the BMW – died in the crash.