An unaccompanied learner driver was using his mobile phone when his car struck and killed a schoolgirl while she was walking on a road in Co Offaly, Tullamore Circuit Criminal Court has heard.
The father of four-year-old Tadgh Farrell – who was killed alongside his grand-aunt in a firebombing attack in Edenderry – has been jailed for seven years for a €33,000 heroin seizure.
Aaron Holt (27) faced sentencing on Tuesday when Judge Keenan Johnson described him as the “main driver of a significant amount of drugs” in his locality.
His son Tadgh died at Castleview Park, Edenderry, Co Offaly, on December 7th in a suspected petrol bomb attack, which also claimed the life of his aunt Mary Holt (60), and left his mother severely i
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