'A drink driver would have got more time behind bars': Family hits out against killer's sentence

Marguerita O’Rourke, 21, had travelled home to Limerick with her husband and newborn son to spend Christmas with her family, just weeks after becoming a mother. She was killed a day after returning home

Denis O'Rourke and Marguerita Sheridan on their wedding day.

The family of a young mother who died in a hit-and-run incident say they are horrified by the sentence handed down to the man responsible for her death. 

“A drink driver would have got more time behind bars,” said the family.