Man killed and fiancée seriously injured in weekend collision

A COUPLE’S wedding plans have ended in tragedy after one was killed and the other seriously injured in a Bank Holiday weekend crash.

Eamon Fahy, 32, from Milltown, Co Galway, was travelling with his fiancée in his Volkswagen Polo car at 9.30pm on Sunday night. They collided with a Renault Laguna containing five young men at the Kiltevna crossroads, two miles outside Dunmore, Co Galway.

Fire-fighters had to use cutting equipment to free the occupants from the mangled wreckage. Mr Fahy was pronounced dead at the scene and his fiancée was seriously injured.

She was rushed to University College Hospital, Galway, and is still being treated in the Intensive Care Unit.

Flowers have been placed at the scene by shocked locals. Mr Fahy was building a house in Russelstown in Galway and planned to marry his fiancée later this summer. Mr Fahy is survived by his father Michael, three sisters and a brother. His mother Teresa died 11 years ago after a fall.

The five young men in the other car were from the Anbally/Cummer area in Galway, and were on the way home from the Galway-Leitrim match in Carrick-on-Shannon. They were also taken to University College Hospital, Galway, but all were later released.

Gardaí said it was too early to determine the exact cause of the accident as there were no witnesses to the crash.

In another Galway accident, three men were seriously injured on Sunday night when their car struck a pole on the Tuam-Galway road. One man is in intensive care and another in a ward at University College Hospital, Galway.

The weekend road death toll of two a cyclist was also killed in Co Cavan on Saturday is down on the May Bank Holiday weekend, when eight people died.