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Vigil for Innocent Victims of M9 Collision to Be Held
Fr John Dunphy said the event will let the community support the injured family and pray for the five teenagers who died.
- St. Clare's Church in Graiguecullen, Carlow, will host a prayer vigil at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, August 21, to support three sisters and a young boy seriously injured in Sunday's M9 motorway collision.
- The family from Graiguecullen was traveling to Dublin Airport on Sunday when a vehicle driving the wrong direction collided with their car near Moone, Co Kildare, killing five teenagers in the other vehicle.
- A GoFundMe fundraiser organized by friend Bryan Curley has raised over €515,000 through more than 18,000 donations, reflecting what supporters described as an 'incredible amount of support' from across Ireland.
- Parish priest Father John Dunphy called the vigil an 'opportunity for the whole community to show their support' as the injured family remains hospitalized facing a 'long and challenging road ahead.'
- Fr. Dunphy urged the public to remember the five teenagers who died, saying 'the boys have parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins and they too are hurting' and need prayers.
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Vigil to take place in Co Carlow for three sisters and boy injured in M9 crash
Parish priest Fr John Dunphy told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that the vigil was an opportunity for the whole community “to show their support to the young ladies and the young boy and their families and I think the community is very anxious to do that.”
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Vigil for innocent victims of M9 collision to be held
A prayer vigil is to be held tomorrow for four members of a family seriously injured in the deadly collision on the M9 which claimed the lives of five male teenagers in the early hours of Sunday. Sisters Alma and Niamh Kinsella, aged in their 30s, were in the front of their Hyundai car while […]
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