"I called to see the Duffys yesterday, and they are just numbed really. And, as the mother, Carmel, said, they expect him to be driving in the driveway and that's not going to happen. They're just in shock. It's so difficult to take in a sudden death. We're not meant for that really, as human beings. It'll take a long time before the shock of the whole thing really hits the family."
"I was deeply, deeply shocked and traumatised really, because I have had experience over the years of several young people who've been been killed tragically in different circumstances. And I thought to myself, "here we are again", and we're just after the recent death, just six months ago, of Dylan McCahey who died of an accident while abroad. So, it brought the whole kind of emotion back again to everyone. No words can adequately describe the loss and the grief."
Five young people were killed in a car crash: Shay Duffy (21) and Chloe McGee (23) from Carrickmacross; Alan McCluskey (23) from Drumconrath, Co Meath; Dylan Commins (23) from Ardee, Co Louth; and Chloe Hipson (21) from Lanarkshire, Scotland. A sixth man in his 20s is receiving medical treatment for serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The group were travelling together in a Volkswagen Golf en route to Dundalk for a night out. Shay Duffy was finishing a plumbing apprenticeship and had played for Magheracloone Mitchells. Carmel Duffy expects her son to arrive home any minute, and the family and community are deeply stunned and rallying round them, compounded by a recent local death six months earlier.
Read at Irish Independent
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