Galway loses popular councillor and former mayor
- Galway city's longest serving councillor and three times Mayor, Councillor Michael Leahy died ten days ago after a short illness. A native of Limerick, he came to Galway in the 1950s and served on the council from 1979 until his death at the age of 74. I had the good fortune to get to know Councillor Leahy and it was refreshing, in an age when politicians are often viewed with cynicism, to find a man who was clearly in politics solely to serve the people. Michael was also a man who was rarely discussed without someone in the group referring to him as a "thorough gentleman", or words to that effect. I would like to offer my sympathy to his wife Bridie and their three sons and a daughter.
Road deaths in Cos. Dublin, Meath, Sligo, Cork, Tipperary, Offaly and Kildare
- A 30-year-old Moldovan woman, who fell from her bicycle in Dublin last Saturday afternoon, died in the Mater Hospital on Monday night. The accident happened at the junction of Conyngham Road, Parkgate Street and Infirmary Road. An 11-year-old child being carried on the bicycle was uninjured. While reports fail to say exactly what happened, the Sunday Independent says that a file is being sent to the DPP.
- On Tuesday afternoon a man in his mid-70s died when he was involved in a two-car collision in Co. Meath, on the Kells to Cavan road. The victim was later named as Patrick Taggart, from Carlanstown, Co. Meath.
- Pat Carney, an elderly man from Baltra, Co. Sligo, died shortly after 5:30pm on Wednesday when he was struck by a car while walking near his home, on the N59 Ballina to Sligo road.
- On Thursday afternoon Mary Murray (45) was fatally injured when the car she was driving collided with another car near her home outside Schull, Co. Cork.
- Also on Thursday Lily Hastings-Bass (20), from England but with an address in Rathgar, died in hospital as a result of injuries sustained in a hit and run incident on the night of November 26. She was crossing Rathgar Road in Dublin when she was knocked down by a small dark blue, two-door hatchback-type car which failed to stop.
- At 6:00pm on Thursday Bridget O'Connell (79), from Ballyquin, Co. Waterford, was killed when she was struck by a car on the Pill Road, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary.
- Dace Leisavniece (23), with an address in Trim, Co. Meath, died in a two-car crash at Bellinter, Navan, Co. Meath on Friday evening. The Latvian native was a back-seat passenger in one of the cars.
- A male motorcyclist lost his life at around 4:00am on Saturday when he collided with a car on Dublin's Phibsboro Road.
- That night at around 9:00pm a man in his 20s died when he lost control of his car on the M11 at Shankill, Co. Dublin, and crashed into a pole.
- A man in his 30s died in Tullamore General Hospital yesterday a short time after he was found injured at the side of the road outside the Co. Offaly town.
- Yesterday evening a 17-year-old youth lost his life when the car he was driving went out of control and fell into the Grand Canal near Skew Bridge, on the Allenwood to Prosperous road in Co. Kildare.
