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Funeral Details To Be Revealed For Five Teenagers As Four Other People Remain In Hospital After M9 Crash

Tuesday, 18 August 2026 08:26

By Daniel Maher

Photo: Eamonn Farrell / Rolling News

Those in hospital include a 7-year-old boy.

Funeral details are expected to be announced later, for the five teenagers who died in the M9 collision on Sunday morning.

Teenagers Joe Carthy, Alex McCarthy, Kamil Pustkowski, Jeremy O'Brien and Jack Kennedy were killed when the car they were in was driven the wrong way up the motorway, and collided head on with another vehicle.

The family in the second car, three sisters and one of the women's 7-year-old son, remain in serious conditions in different hospitals this morning.

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