{"id":8514,"date":"2025-08-19T03:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/8514\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:41:14","slug":"plaque-unveiled-for-victim-of-limerick-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/8514\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaque unveiled for victim of Limerick hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/live95-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Live95 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68a314e84723f.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Live95 Picture library <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Joe Drennan&#8217;s family were in Limerick for the unveiling on Sunday.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A plaque honouring UL student Joe Drennan now stands at the spot he was killed in a hit-and-run in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Joe&#8217;s family made the hard journey down to Limerick to officially unveil the plaque.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The journalism student was just 21 when he was killed by Kieran Fogarty while waiting on a bus home from work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Martin Ryan, who works with Joe&#8217;s uncle, approached his party colleague Cllr Catherine Slattery about the possibility of a erecting a memorial at the site of the collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family attended the unveiling of a plaque on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Live 95 news, Joe&#8217;s sister Sarah said it&#8217;s never easy coming back to Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u00a0hate the road down here to Limerick. I find it awful hard, but you know today I suppose is different as we&#8217;re remembering Joe with the plaque&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Public Prosecutions announced last February that it would appeal Fogarty\u2019s sentence, following a campaign for justice led by Mr Drennan\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>Last January, Fogarty was sentenced at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court to six and a half years after he pleaded guilty to charges in respect of Mr Drennan\u2019s death by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah shared hopes that justice will be served in the appeal, which is coming up in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked how the family have supported each other through it all, Sarah responded:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suppose we just have to try to keep busy and talk to each other and help each other out however we can. Every day is a struggle, and we miss Joe terribly, but you kind of have to just get on with life as best you can&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The family say they are happy with how the plaque turned out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/on-air\/ways-to-listen\/?utm_source=Live95&amp;utm_medium=news+article&amp;utm_campaign=app_download\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6655efe7844a7.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Live95 News Live95 Picture library Joe Drennan&#8217;s family were in Limerick for the unveiling on Sunday. 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