Irish Examiner View: A tragic marker

Changing Ireland

Karzan Sabah Ahmed, Shahen Qasm and baby Lena who were killed in a crash on the M6 outside Ballinasloe, Co Galway last week. Picture: Kurdish Irish Society

The changing character of Ireland - and Europe too - was underlined in the most dramatic but tragic way last week when three members of a Kurdish family lost their lives in a Galway car crash involving a Polish man. 

Karzan Sabah Ahmed, his wife Shahen Qasm, their eight-month-old daughter Lena and Jonasz Lach died in the three-car crash last Thursday at Poolboy, outside of Ballinasloe.