The 1990s plan that ended a joyriding epidemic could hold the answers after M9 tragedy

Local gardaí and youth workers are key to identifying and targeting joyriders, but need support from the top

A GoFundMe page has been launched to help support three sisters (left to right) Ella Hendricken, Niamh Kinsella and Alma Kinsella who were injured alongside a seven-year-old boy in the recent M9 crash.

A combined intervention targeting the “hard core” of joyriders endangering lives on the roads and the likely “next generation” of joyriders is needed to address the problem, according to a youth worker with decades of experience.

Eddie D’Arcy, who was involved in a multi-agency response to a violent joyriding epidemic in west Dublin in the early 1990s, made the call following Sunday’s horrific head-on collision on the M9 motorway.