Bus’s oil leak delayed hurling stars from making throw-in

A director of a Kerry bus firm was yesterday convicted in relation to an oil spill that was inadvertently a major factor in All-Ireland winners Clare’s first senior hurling win of the year over Cork.

The spill caused by diesel leaking from a Kennedy Coach on the main Limerick to Galway motorway on Feb 1 caused traffic chaos, resulting in five road accidents with one person injured.

The two-mile long slick at Ballymorris Cratloe shut the motorway and forced gardaí to close a 10km stretch of road resulting in massive tailbacks. In one of the stuck cars was a car with five senior Cork hurlers, Conor O’Sullivan, Daniel Kearney, Cian McCarthy, Adrian Mannix, and Stephen Moylan.