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David Kent

Funeral details for Ciaran McDonnell released as Longford crash victim to be laid to rest

A young man who died in a New Year's Day crash will be laid to rest on Thursday.

Ciarán McDonnell sadly lost his life after the car, which he was the sole occupant of, left the R194 road at Clonfin last weekend.

He is survived by his "heartbroken" parents William and Patricia, brothers, sisters, grandparents, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, girlfriend Mandy, relatives and many friends.

According to RIP.IE, Mr McDonnell's funeral will take place at St Mel's Cathedral on Thursday at 11am with burial afterwards in Ballymacormack Cemetery.

His body will lie in Glennon's Funeral Home on Wednesday from 4-5pm, with removal to St Mel's Cathedral arriving at 5.30pm.

Mr McDonnell was one of six killed on the roads over the New Year's weekend.

Nineteen-year-old Josh Boyd was killed when the motorcycle he was driving collided with a lamppost along the Sillogue Road in Ballymun, north Dublin shortly before 3pm on New Year's Day.

The night before, Saoirse Corrigan and Shane Gilchrist, both from Castlepollard in Westmeath, were killed in a two-car collision in Kells, Meath.

Ciaran McDonnell (RIP.ie)

Health care worker Julie Ann Kehoe, from Craanford in Wexford, was driving in the other car involved in the horrific crash, died later in James Connolly hospital in Blanchardstown.

A man in his 50s has died in hospital after a crash in Co Tipperary last Tuesday,

The man was seriously injured on the N24 at Fawnagowan, County Tipperary, at approximately 12:45pm.

Gardai have confirmed that the man died at Cork University Hospital on Sunday afternoon in yet another Christmas tragedy on Irish roads.

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