Marguerita O’Rourke was killed in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, on December 21st, 2024
The father of a woman killed by her uncle in a hit-and-run incident in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, has said his family’s lives “changed forever” when she died.
Marguerita O’Rourke (21) died after Danny O’Donoghue (43) deliberately drove his van into a set of steel gates she was standing behind, his sentencing hearing at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court heard on Wednesday.
O’Donoghue immediately drove away from the scene in Rathkeale. One minute later, while armed with a machete, he set upon another relative, Patrick Sheridan.
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