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The Kingdom Thurs July 1st 2004

Crash kills teenager day after exams end
STUDENTS at the Intermediate School in Killorglin and locals in the tight-knit community of Faha, outside Killarney, have been plunged into mourning this week following the tragic death of 18- year-old Breda Brosnan at the weekend. The teenager was killed in a horrific two-car collision on the main Killarney to Cork road just after 7pm on Saturday evening. A repeat Leaving Certificate student in the Intermediate School in Killorglin, the young Faha woman had just completed her exams on Friday and was looking forward to receiving her results in August. She was a front seat passenger in a car that was involved in a collision with another vehicle as it turned at a junction linking the new and old Cork roads. The car involved was travelling from Killarney on the N22 when it collided with another car travelling in the opposite direction as it turned at the Iron Mill’s junction leading to Gortacush Bridge. “It’s a dangerous junction in close proximity to a bend,” Sergeant Tom Tobin of Killarney Garda Station told The Kingdom. “There were two passengers in each of the cars and the young girl who died was a front seat passenger in one of the cars,” he added. It is understood Breda died at the scene of the crash. The three other people involved in Saturday evening’s accident were removed by ambulance to Tralee General Hospital where they received treatment for injuries sustained. However, none of the injuries were lifethreatening. There were poignant scenes as the remains of 18-year-old Breda were removed from Flynn’s Funeral Home in Castlemaine at 8pm on Monday to the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Listry, close to her home in Rockfield. The Requiem Mass will take place this Tuesday at 12 noon with burial afterwards at Aghadoe Lawn cemetery. As a mark of respect to their former school-mate, students at the Intermediate School in Killorglin have postponed their debs’ ball which was planned for Monday, July 5.

Irish IndependentSat Jan 22nd 2005

Judge convicts driver in death crash case
THE driver of a car in which an 18-year-old girl lost her life last June after a collision with another vehicle was last night convicted of driving without due care and attention. The solicitor for Damien McCarthy (20) of Gortahoosh, Glenflesk, Killarney, Co Kerry, had pleaded for an outcome that would not involve a formal conviction because his client had applied to join the Garda. The solicitor also said the parents of Breda Brosnan, who was killed in the collision, bore him no ill-will. Breda's mother Sheila Brosnan also told the court she did not believe Mr McCarthy was the cause of the accident in which her daughter, a front-seat passenger in the car, died. Mr McCarthy had pleaded not guilty. Judge John O'Neill at Killarney District Court said it had been "a frightful accident on a summer's evening" and Mr McCarthy had been the cause. An independent witness told the court: "(Mr McCarthy's) car shouldn't have crossed the road because the other car was coming." Judge O'Neill convicted Mr McCarthy, endorsed his licence and fined him €250.