Judge: ‘Young drivers must read this’

Heartbroken mother Margaret Sheehan yesterday poured the anguish of a lost son into a powerful victim impact statement at Cork Circuit Criminal Court...

Judge: ‘Young drivers must read this’

“There are places and moments in time that we all for one reason or another will never forget. Aug 29, 2010, is one such day. Standing in the morgue in Cork City that morning the situation became a reality: The words and whispers that had been following us around for the past hours became real. Our beautiful son Keith, brother, uncle, was gone from us. Lying still, cold and lifeless in front of us, covered in a single white sheet, he lay silent — in a world completely at odds with the one his family stood in.

“Six confused, angry and shocked members of his immediate family left the morgue that day consumed with the guilt of having to leave him behind all alone — but each of us knew that there was no other way. Our lives had been turned upside down forever.

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