{"id":55378,"date":"2025-05-24T13:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/irish-government-to-apologise-over-fatal-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:17:40","slug":"irish-government-to-apologise-over-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/irish-government-to-apologise-over-fatal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish government to apologise over fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Shane O’Farrell was killed in a hit-and-run crash by a driver with more than 40 previous convictions<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Irish government is to apologise to the family of a cyclist killed in a hit-and-run by a driver who should have been in jail at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n

Shane O’Farrell was 23 when he was hit by a car while cycling near his home in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, in 2011.<\/p>\n

The driver, Zigimantas Gridziuska, had more than 40 convictions at the time, including some in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Mr O’Farrell’s mother, Lucia O’Farrell, told Irish broadcast RT\u00c9 that her family is expecting a public apology <\/a>to be made in the D\u00e1il (Irish parliament) on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The O’Farrell family have campaigned for years for a public inquiry into their son’s death. <\/p>\n

“Shane’s case raises serious issues about how the criminal justice system works and how it ought to work,” Mrs O’Farrell told RT\u00c9’s Colm \u00d3 Mong\u00e1in. <\/p>\n

“We await the apology on Tuesday.”<\/p>\n

The body of the young law graduate was found nearly 60 yards (54m) from the point where he was hit by a car on 2 August 2011.<\/p>\n

Gridziuska, a Lithuanian national, left the scene of the fatal crash but the following day he handed himself into garda\u00ed (Irish police).<\/p>\n

He had been a regular defendant in courts in Monaghan, Cavan and Louth in the years prior to the killing, according to RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Prison avoided due to ‘administrative error’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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In the January before the fatal crash, a ruling from Monaghan Circuit Court meant Gridziuska should have been in jail at the time of Mr O’Farrell’s death.<\/p>\n

Instead, he remained on bail.<\/p>\n

Another prison sentence handed down in February 2011 was also not imposed.<\/p>\n

The Court Services of Ireland previously said Gridziuska’s prison sentences were never served because of what it described as an administrative error.<\/p>\n

As part of their long-running campaign, the O’Farrell family have previously travelled to Belfast and Brussels to raise their case in Stormont and the European Parliament. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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