Tearful motorist recounts horror of fatal impact with 15-year-old on country road

A motorist has recounted the horror of discovering that the black object that she had just driven over was a 15 year old school boy who was lying on a country road on a dark November morning last year, writes Gordon Deegan.

At the Coroner’s Court in Ennis today, hotel receptionist at the Trump Doonbeg resort, Christine Flynn said after returning to the scene where her car had felt ‘a bump’, she recalled saying ‘Oh God’ to herself when she saw the cupped hands of Kevin Donnellan that confirmed to her it was a body.