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Irish Emigrant August 2, 1999
Three people died at around 9:30pm on Friday when a car and a van were involved in a head-on collision on the Cork-Mallow road, near Rathduff. The victims were named as John Mullane (26) and Jacinta Magnier (19), both from Mallow, and the van driver, John Madden (20), from Douglas Rd in Cork city.

Irish Emigrant March 13, 2000
At Blarney District Court Patrick Carroll (34) of Mallow, Co. Cork, was fined IR100 and disqualified for three years for failing to remain at the scene of an accident in which three people died. The court was told that Carroll had been receiving constant psychiatric treatment since the accident last summer although he was entirely blameless. Carroll was driving a car at Rathduff on the Cork-Mallow road when his passenger pushed the steering wheel, forcing a van behind them to take evasive action and causing it to collide with an oncoming car. The van driver and two young people in the car were all killed. Carroll was urged by his passenger to keep driving but as soon as he heard radio reports of the deaths of three people he went straight to the home of a local garda. The passenger faces three counts of manslaughter.

Irish Emigrant November 26, 2001
Michael O'Shea (29), from Mallow, Co. Cork, received three five-year sentences, to run consecutively, after he pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of three young people who died in a road accident at Rathduff, near Mallow, in July 1999. The court heard that, after a bout of drinking, O'Shea pushed and pulled the steering wheel of a car in which he was a passenger. His action forced a van across the central white line and into the path of another car. The victims were John Madden (21) and John Mullane (26) from Mallow and Jacinta Magner (22) from nearby Killavullen. The car in which O'Shea had been travelling failed to stop and he was arrested the following day. He later absconded to England and had to be extradited from England to stand trial.

Irish Examiner 02-08-99
Poignant scenes were witnessed last night when two of the victims of Friday night's horror crash near Rathduff, on the main Cork-Mallow road, were removed from O' Connell's Funeral Home in Mallow to St Nicholas' Church in Killavullen. John Mullane, a 26 year old farmer from Rockforest, Mallow, who was driving towards Cork in a car, and his girl friend passenger, Jacinta Magner, 19, Killavullen, died instantly in the collision, which also claimed the life of John Madden, 20, the driver of an oncoming van.
Friends described John Mullane, son of Bridie and the late Pat Mullane, and Jacinta Magner, who worked in Limerick and whose parents, Billy and Catherine, are publicans in Killavullen, as a lovely couple. Their remains were jointly removed to the church in Killavullen last night and they will be laid to rest beside each other this afternoon in St. John's Cemetery, Glantane.
There was also grief in South Douglas Road, Cork, where the other victim of the crash, John (Johnny) Madden, lived. His parents, Sean and Linda, and children, Carol, Adrian, David, Ray, Kate and Steve, were being comforted by family friends and neighbours. That removal will take place at 7.30 tonight from Sullivans Funeral Home, Turners Cross to the nearby Church of Christ the King. The funeral will take place to St Michael's Cemetery, Blackrock, after 2 pm Requiem Mass tomorrow. A passenger in Mr Madden's van was seriously injured and taken to Cork University Hospital, where he was later stated to be in a serious but stable condition. Mr Madden's father, Sean, is a driver with Examiner Publications, while Jacinta Magner's sister, Mary, is also employed in the company's catering department.