Trip to the races ends in tragedy for three friends

AN annual sporting pilgrimage to the Listowel Races by a group of horse racing friends from Limerick ended in tragedy on Sunday night when three of them were killed instantly as they returned home in a hackney.

The green Nissan Serena they were travelling in was in collision with a silver Opel Astra carrying four members of the Abbeyfeale GAA club, who were returning form a county championship football game in Kilmallock. The GAA group escaped injury.

Those who died were Richard Feury, 37, who was married with a young son, of Daarwood Crescent, Newcastle West; Tommy Murphy, 32, also of Daarwood Crescent, Newcastle West, and Tommy Holmes, 32, of Bishop Court, Newcastle West.