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The scene of the crash in Gortahork, Donegal, yesterday. PA Wire/PA Images

'It is heartbreaking': Funeral arrangements announced for four young men who died in Donegal crash

The President of the GAA has paid tribute to the men.

LAST UPDATE | 29 Jan 2019

THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS have been announced for the four young men who died in a car crash in Co Donegal on Sunday night.

The men, all aged in their 20s and from the local area, will be buried on Thursday.

Shaun Harkin‘s funeral mass will take place in Christ the King Church, Gortahork, at 10am on Thursday with burial afterwards in the adjacent cemetery.

Mícheal Roarty‘s funeral mass will take place in the Sacred Heart Church, Dunlewey, at 11.30am on Thursday with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.

John Harley‘s funeral mass will take place at St Finian’s Church, Falcarragh, at 1pm on Thursday with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.

Daniel Scott‘s funeral mass will take part in Christ the King Church, Gortahork, at 2.30pm on Thursday with burial afterwards in the adjacent cemetery.

The families’ wishes regarding visiting times can be read at the above links.

Tributes have been paid to the men since the tragic accident, with members of the local community rallying around their families and friends. 

John Horan, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association, said he was “truly saddened” by the news and offered his condolences to the men’s families and friends.

It is heartbreaking to think that these four young men, in the prime of their lives, had their lives taken from them so soon.

“On behalf of the GAA I would like to extend my sympathies and condolences to the victims’ families, teammates, clubs, and wider circle of friend,” Horan said. 

‘Devastating’

Emergency services were called to the scene of the single-vehicle collision on a road near Magheraroarty, Gortahork, shortly before 9pm on Sunday.

The four men, who were travelling in one car, were pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. The cause of the crash is not yet known.

Sinn Féin councillor John Seamais Ó Fearraigh told TheJournal.ie people in the area are “devastated” and “totally numb”.

Four young men have lost their lives, it’s a huge tragedy. It’s just devastating for all the families and all the friends as well.

Gardaí have appealed for witnesses to the incident to contact Milford Garda Station on 074 915 3060 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.

Ten people have died on Irish roads since Thursday. Chief Superintendent Finbarr Murphy of the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau said the force was “deeply saddened” by the death toll on Irish roads over the past week.

“I want to take this opportunity to send our condolences to all of those affected by these tragic events,” he added.

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    Mute Jacks R. Back
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:08 AM

    We had co-living before. We called them tenements.

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    Mute Mary Nugent
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 1:39 AM

    @Jacks R. NAMA sold all of it off c/o ff/ g Noonan at the helm with Capt. Enda Kenny.

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    Mute Wreck Tangle
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:46 AM

    Co-living works well in other cities. I lived in about 40 Sq m when I first moved to Zurich. It was great. Small, in the city, very practical, nice neighbours who I shared certain spaces with but also and most importantly, it was affordable.

    Difference in Ireland is that developers are using this route not to create affordable housing for young, single people, they are trying to maximise their yield per Sq m. Terrible stuff.

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    Mute Karl Harvey
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 2:35 AM

    @Wreck Tangle: this is totally different as well, price aside. You lived in 40 square meters. The majority of these will be 16 square meters! Then some will be 18 square meters, and about 4 of them will be 24 square meters. Big difference between those numbers and what you lived in.

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    Mute Kevin Thompson
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 7:40 AM

    @Wreck Tangle: how much did you pay per month?

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    Mute Wreck Tangle
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 8:32 AM

    @Kevin Thompson:

    1,100 Swiss Francs (think it was about eur 1k at time). Net salary is around 3* Ireland and average rent in Zurich City for 80-100 Sq m is probably around chf 2.8k so it’s a completely fair deal.

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    Mute Karl Harvey
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:17 AM

    More like “Price Gouging Leeches seek meeting with useless puppet over ‘not enough propaganda to make our expensive shoe boxes desirable’”

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    Mute windbag
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:36 AM

    Misinformed… I don’t think so.. I lived in one of these in Holland for awhile and it was a nightmare..

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    Mute Nigel Barlow
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 1:20 AM

    @windbag: in what way?

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    Mute Bleurgh
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 6:36 AM

    @windbag: lived in one in Holland too in my early 20s and I loved it, didn’t know anyone and was a great way to meet people and was cheap! It was perfect for a certain time in my life.

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    Mute Frank Scanlon
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:14 AM

    Absolute disgrace if any of these ‘developments’ get the go-ahead. As regards the report commissioned by Bartra, leave it so

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 10:38 AM

    @Frank Scanlon: theres already some completed and some under construction

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    Mute EillieEs
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 3:15 AM

    I wonder what percentage of applications currently under review is for these hostel-type accommodation? Between student apartments, hotels and these co-living developments it seems couples and families are being pushed out of the city; developers are being allowed shape the future of the city.

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    Mute Ciara Ní Mhurchú
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 9:59 AM

    @EillieEs: Single people are being pushed out too. No hardworking Dub wants to live in a pokey studio flat either.

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    Mute NotaWarder
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 10:13 AM

    @EillieEs: City probably not the best place to raise a family

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 11:26 AM

    @NotaWarder: yes it is. You get to spend more time with your kids, Instead of commuting for hours.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 6:26 AM

    1. Teagasc recommends stable units of 18sqm for horses. These units are 16sqm.
    2. Covid has obviously put a dampner on the situation. Say there is a kitchen unit per 25/30 people. Good luck having breakfast/prepping your sandwich while social distancing.
    3. Under what laws are the renters protected. If I’m not mistaken, the PRTB aren’t gonna protect you, it’s a private contract between you and the owner.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/co-living-residents-may-fall-outside-rental-protections-1.3990143

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    Mute Rochey77
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 10:39 AM

    @Padraic O Sullivan: i don’t know if you’ve ever seen horses though, they are pretty large

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 7:12 AM

    Irish developer looks for meeting with ff minister because he wants to alter reality….hmmmm….where have I heard this before?

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    Mute Adam Conroy
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 7:56 AM

    Pull the other one it’s got bells on. There’s one reason and one reason only that developers want this…it suits them fine to build overpriced boxes for people to live in, rather than proper apartments or houses.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 9:23 AM

    @Adam Conroy: they’ll increase the housing stock which will reduce the demand strain which will decrease the price in the long run. How many people could you house in traditional housing developments on that land? The more people we get out of traditional housing that don’t need to be there the more the traditional housing stock is available to families/young people looking to start a family.

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    Mute Sam Greene
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 11:28 AM

    @Podge: do t know many single people living in 2 or 3 bed houses? Do you? This is all about profit for the least amount of space.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 11:38 AM

    @Sam Greene: yes. And I was one of them for many years. Obviously they rent out a room and share with others. Very hard for a family to compete with 3 working single people for a 3 bed house.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:27 PM

    @Podge: A small box is not housing

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:39 PM

    @Gary Kearney: So how big does a room have to be to be considered housing under whatever definition you’ve come up with in your own head?
    I live in a small apartment. I know many people who live in small apartments. I know people who share bedrooms with 2/3 people. It’s not the best form of housing but it’s all housing.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:44 AM

    No brown envelopes were involved that’s a giving.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 3:22 AM

    The minister rushes to be lectured by these people.

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    Mute Ann Experiment
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:09 AM

    Mehole.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 8:22 AM

    As I have said in the past, make the out of Dublin TD’s stay in these accommodations while they are up thee instead of renting apartments and hotels and see how it goes. After all, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

    It will also save the state money if they go out and buy a few rooms and share them among the TD’s and other public servants and staff.

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    Mute jgc
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 8:07 AM

    #coliving Looks like very expensive Direct Provision accommodation: so that the rising affulent can experience tennent style living in order to be prepared for the next pandemic

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    Mute Emer Caffrey
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 4:25 AM

    Looks ugly for starters

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    Mute Lydia McLoughlin
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 7:50 AM

    You just smell the BS when he blew smoke up the b’side of the Minister when he put in that paragraph about “… strong and stable government…’ The government are just a front, puppets for the perceived elite and not fit for purpose.

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    Mute Eoin Ryan
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 10:38 AM

    They should be banned. Worst idea I’ve heard. We are going backwards here in Ireland.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 9:10 AM

    Many people talk about how we need houses not this type of accommodation. What people fail to realise is that getting people who don’t need to be in traditional houses into other types of accommodation frees up traditional housing.
    When I first moved to Dublin at 22 I would have happily moved into one of these as I didn’t know many people in the city. A few years on and I’m living with my girlfriend, we don’t need a house at the moment as it’s just the two of us. An apartment would be the most ideal (the standard is better than a lot of the houses converted into one beds).
    Instead I’ve lived in three different places in Dublin and all three were old houses that would have been perfect for families. The current house was converted into 5 different one bedroom/studio apartments.
    I don’t know how a couple with kids are supposed to compete with investors who can put 6+ working people in a house and charge them €700+ each.
    The more housing stock we have the more prices will come down.

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    Mute Sam Greene
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 11:31 AM

    @Podge: so basically they are student accomodation, under a different guise. We need more families in the city, not more single person acconodation. .

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 11:45 AM

    @Sam Greene: Yes, so how can we get more families into the city? How about we build other types of accommodation so that people living in houses who don’t really care about living in a house can move? Dublin is full of houses where each bedroom is rented out to single people or couples. Like I said above I’ve lived in many and the current house I’m living in would make for a lovely family home except it was converted into a bunch of 1 bedroom/studio apartments.
    There’s not enough houses – build houses is such a one dimensional view.

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    Mute Cynical
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 1:05 PM

    For anyone using foreign examples of good co-living spaces, please realise business people in Ireland like to do everything a lot worse than the rest of Europe.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 9:25 AM

    People should go and look at one, and then give their view.
    I was initially sceptical about these developments, and indeed they should be well scrutinised, but I looked at one in London in January and I was impressed.
    They aren’t designed to house families, they are somewhere between a hotel and an apartment, designed for single occupancy for shortish lets.
    A lot of people move to Dublin for one or two year contracts in the IT sector, and having this option means they aren’t occupying an apartment that might suit a family. These developments are targeted at a specific sector, same as student accommodation is targeted at students.
    Opposition to co-living developments makes a great rallying cry for certain groups, but they are either misinformed or deliberately ignoring the reality.

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    Mute Jose Maria
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    Sep 3rd 2020, 11:21 AM

    Dublin, one of the youngest cities in Europe and with no co-living places.

    I guess the people that don’t agree with that is because they prefer to live in bunk beds or in old houses.

    Student residences are nice for people until 24 and co-living places are nice for expats and people until their 30s.

    Is it that difficult to understand?

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    Mute vanc
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    Sep 6th 2020, 12:08 PM

    We need affordable housing full stop. Not everyone needs a 3 bed semi-detached or a 2bed appt. These units are smaller than a hotel room for 1.5-2k per month. You could actually long stay in in a b&b for that!

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