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 avoids jail over fatal crash

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.

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