The funerals of Jeremy O’Brien and Jack Kennedy, two of the five teenage victims of the M9 crash in Co Kildare, are set to take place
The funerals of two young victims of the devastating M9 motorway crash last weekend are set to be held this week.
Five teenage boys lost their lives after a high-powered BMW they were travelling in veered the wrong way along the M9, colliding head-on with a family en route to Dublin Airport in the early hours of Sunday, August 16.
The BMW is believed to have been travelling in excess of 120km/h when it struck the Hyundai near Junction 3 of the M9 in Co Kildare at approximately 3am that Sunday morning.
Four occupants of the Hyundai, sisters Niamh and Alma Kinsella and Ella Hendricken, along with a young boy, suffered catastrophic injuries in the collision and remain hospitalised.
Jeremy O’Brien, 18, from Carlow, Alex McCarthy, 16, from Carlow, Joey Carthy, 15, from Athy, Kildare, Jack Kennedy, 17, also from Athy, and Kamil Pustkowski, 17, from Limerick, all perished in the crash, reports the Irish Mirror.
Three of the teenagers have already been laid to rest, with 15 year old Joe Carthy becoming the first of the five to be buried earlier on Friday.
His funeral was held at St Michael’s Church in Athy just before 11.30am, while Alex McCarthy’s service took place in Askea, Carlow, on Friday afternoon.
A small gathering of mourners also assembled in Limerick on Friday to pay their final respects to Kamil Pustkowski, who lay in repose at a local funeral home prior to a cremation ceremony. The funeral mass for Jeremy ‘Bobbles’ O’Brien is scheduled for Monday at 11am at the Church of the Holy Family, Askea, with burial to follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Carlow.
Jack Kennedy’s funeral mass will be held on Tuesday at 11am at St. Michael’s Parish Church, Athy, ahead of a private cremation later that afternoon.
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