DPP lodges appeal against concurrent sentence on killer of Limerick student Joe Drennan

Joe Drennan’s family said they were 'disgusted' by the sentence, and had called on the DPP to lodge an appeal against it

Joe Drennan was killed in a hit-and-run two years ago.

The mother of student journalist Joe Drennan, who was killed in a hit-and-run two years ago, said her family were informed on Wednesday morning that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has lodged an appeal against a six-and-a-half year concurrent sentence imposed on her son’s killer, on the grounds it was too lenient.

At his sentencing hearing on January 30, Kieran Fogarty, aged 21, Hyde Avenue, Ballinacurra Weston, Limerick, was jailed for eight years for a shooting at a house in April 2023. The sentencing judge, Colin Daly, initially told the hearing that he was sentencing Fogarty to an additional six-and-a-half years for the fatal hit-and-run.