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Fatal road traffic collision - Dolla, Nenagh, Tipperary on 1/1/09 - and named.

Gardai at Nenagh are investigating a single vehicle fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the Nenagh to Dolla Road at 7.30pm on the 31/12/08 and named.

Gardai investigating the fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the 31/12/08 near Nenagh have named the three males who died.

They were:

Adrian O'Brien, aged 17, from Newtown, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

Padraig Bourke, aged 16, from Silvermines, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

Stuart Donnellan, aged 14, from Cormack Drive, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

Previous press release 1/09, listed below refers.

Garda Press Office.
17:10 hr   1/1/09




Gardai at Nenagh are investigating a single vehicle fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the Nenagh to Dolla Road at 7.30pm on the 31/12/08.

A car with 5 occupants lost control and collided with a tree. Three male occupants aged 14,16 and 17 were fatally injured, one was pronounced dead at the scene and the remaining two at Nenagh General Hospital. The other two occupants, a 15 year old female and a 16 year old male, were taken to the Mid Western General Hospital at Limerick where there condition is described as serious.

The road is currently closed and the examination of the scene by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators is continuing this morning. Diversions are in place.


Garda Press Office.
08:50 hrs 1/1/09