Crash victim so bloody priest friend didn’t recognise him

One of the men knocked down by an out-of-control car was so covered in blood and dust the local parish priest couldn’t even recognise his friend.

Fr Tom Carroll was at the nearby parochial house in Parteen when three elderly friends from Corbally were hit by a car that was being chased by gardaí in Clare.

Fr Carroll said: “I got a call from Karen Browne, who runs the pub in the village, to come. What I saw was shocking. Just shocking.