Mother still waiting for justice a decade after son was killed on bike

Law graduate Shane O'Farrell was hit by a driver out on bail when cycling near his home in Carrickmacross in 2011

The family of Shane O’Farrell who was killed in a hit and run in Co Monaghan on August 2, 2011. The full circumstances leading to the fatal accident remain unresolved.

Sun, 06 Jun, 2021 - 09:51

Mick Clifford is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of seven books.

ON August 2, Shane O’Farrell will be dead 10 years. He was on the cusp of completing his education and starting a new phase of his young life when he was killed by a hit-and-run driver outside Carrickmacross in Monaghan.

A tenth anniversary of this nature is difficult on any family, but when the full circumstances leading to the fatal accident remain unresolved, the pain is inevitably more acute.