Shocked friends pay emotional tributes to friends
“RIP ladz. Can’t believe you’re gone. You’ll be missed but never forgotten,” said one message.
Another said: “Rest in peace David Áine and Kevin... going to miss you so much. can’t believe your gone. Forever in my thoughts.”
Two friends wrote the following tributes to Áine O’Riordan: “Rest in peace Áine girl. You were sound out. You’re never going to be forgotten. Never going to be the same without you.”
The other read: “What an angel. Love you Áine.”
Tributes also poured in from other sources, with Killarney Mayor Donal Grady describing the accident as a dreadful tragedy.
“We’ve become used to hearing about awful accident in other parts of the country, but it is only when something like this happens on our doorstep that the message really strikes home,” he said. “It’s a terrible shame to see young people who’ve hardly started out in life losing their lives. There is a black cloud over the town. The sympathy of the whole area goes out to their families.”
Castleisland-based councillor and former Kerry mayor Bobby O’Connell said people around Castleisland were only starting to come to grips with another tragic road accident when people were shocked by yet another tragedy.
“It’s only a year since two young men from the Castleisland area, Tim Reidy and Peter Galway, died together in a car accident near Killarney. This is a small, close-knit community and the loss of so many young people is a terrible blow. Castleisland has had more than its fair share of sorrow and youth deaths.”
Kerry South TD Tom Sheahan (FG) visited the Breen home to offer his sympathies and said the family were so distressed that the father of the dead teenage brothers was unable to get up from his chair.
“They were totally distraught,” he said.
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