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LAST UPDATE | 10 Apr 2023
TWO TEENAGERS HAVE died after a road traffic collision in Galway.
Gardaí are currently at the scene of the fatal single-vehicle collision that occurred at approximately 5:45am on the L6127 at Glennagarraun in the Ballyfruit area of Headford.
Gardaí said there were four people in the vehicle, two boys and two girls.
It is understood all four occupants were aged 13 and 14.
One of the boys was pronounced dead at the scene. The remaining three occupants were taken to University Hospital Galway where a girl has since been pronounced dead.
The other occupants remain in University Hospital Galway for treatment on their injuries.
The L6127 at Glennagarraun, Ballyfruit in Headford is currently closed.
The services of Forensic Collision Investigators have been requested and a technical examination of the scene is currently underway. Local diversions are in place.
All four teenagers are students at Presentation College Headford and the school’s Critical Incident Plan has been activated.
Chairperson of the school’s board of management, Cllr Mary Hoade, said the town is shocked by the accident.
“I am just on my way into the school as the Critical Incident Plan is being implemented. The area is shocked and deeply saddened by the accident.
“It is dreadful what has happened and our thoughts and prayers are with the families involved. It is unbelievable,” she said.
Gardaí in Galway are continuing to investigate the collision. They are engaging with the families of all involved and Garda Family Liaison Officers will formally be appointed.
Gardaí are appealing for any witnesses to this collision to come forward.
Any road users who may have camera footage and were travelling on the L6127 at Glennagarraun, Ballyfruit in Headford between 5:30am and 6am are asked to make this footage available to Gardaí.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Tuam Garda Station on 093 70840, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.
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So sad.
All for oil. Disgusting!
Shocking stuff altogether.
Just a horrendous situation. I wonder will Hussein Obama still tout Yemen as one of his “great foreign policy success stories”?
What is happening is the continuation of the Sunni/Shia conflict that originated following the death of Mahomed when the religion split on the interpretation of how Islam would develop. This conflict is being acted out in a modern weapon context. For them the normal rules of war do not exist.
Indeed: a Kalashnikov makes a mighty warrior out of a little kid in todays world and the dastardly British and french liberated the Arabs from the gentle rule of the ottomans who had kept the lid on religious strife for centuries. By the way- does anybody think hitler would have paid for the oil or be coerced by suicide bombers?
Gaining a better understanding of what is happening in Yemen today , and why .
Yemen – the Big Picture. US Sponsored Civil Wars
Peter Koenig, economist and geopolitical analyst, worked in Yemen in the 1990s and early 2000s.
“Yemen is a patchwork of tribes, the result of former colonies, therefore made vulnerable for conflicts; easily ignitable conflicts. A situation left behind on purpose by the old British colonial masters, today servants to the Washington Empire. That’s the name of the game throughout the Middle East – and eventually throughout the world. Divide and rule, ( a strategy successfully implemented in N.Ireland for many years)– by Zionist-Anglo-Saxon organized and never-ending chaos.
It is certainly true, where ever the US and its NATO cronies put their heavy boots, they create lasting misery and chaos. But these never-ending implanted internal conflicts and civil wars in far-away countries are produced by design, not to end soon. They are multi-benefit endeavors, lubricating the US war machine, assuring the ‘need’ for US intervention and occupation, and they are paving the way for US / western transnational corporations’ unabated and merciless exploitation of the victims’ riches, looting their natural resources and enslaving their people. The globalized warriors, the emperor’s proxy armies, NATO and NATO-CIA trained mercenaries encounter little resistance from the population. People oppressed by civil strife have no time and energy to defend their rights, resources and country. They must fight for their sheer survival.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/yemen-the-big-picture/5440957
“It is certainly true, where ever the US and its NATO cronies put their heavy boots, they create lasting misery and chaos.”
I’m sure the people liberated from Nazi occupation in N.W and S. Europe, from Japanese occupation in the Pacific region and from communist occupation in Korea would beg to differ with that assertion.
Honestly, I read that entire article and couldn’t find a single piece of evidence to back up the author’s claims. It’s one long opinion piece with absolutely zero facts in there. All it amounts to is the angry ranting of someone who obviously has an issue with both the US and backing up arguments.
@Pat O’D Also to get a better understanding of fantasy vs. reality see more of Peter Koenig’s make-belief,-
“The Kouachi brother, as well as Amedy Coulibaly, the suspect in the hostage drama of the Hyper Cacher food market in eastern Paris, whose identities and past activities were well recorded in French police files, were most likely pre-identified as perpetrators of the probable pre-meditated murderous attacks that left 17 people dead within three days of horror in Paris; attacks so well organized and carried out that they could easily wear the stamp of French special forces, CIA, Mossad or all three of them – because, cui bono – who benefits? – Perhaps the Masters of all three of them?’
Brutality of Islamic state.It shows no mercy,not even towards innocent children.
How many have been killed by previous drone strikes ?
Who is guilty of starting all this trouble in the Middle East.
Yeah, because the Middle East was an idyllic paradise for the previous millennia.
At the minute it’s american backed Saudis doing the bombing.
The same Saudi lads that armed ISIS.
Davedunne
The very same lads.
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