Senan O’Flaherty fined €1,500 for careless driving causing death

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Senan O’Flaherty was fined €1,500 for careless driving causing death at Ennis Circuit Court on 20 April 2020. He also received a four-year driving disqualification after pleading guilty to causing the death of three-year-old Estlin Wall and serious bodily harm to her father, Vincent Wall.

Judge Gerald Keys imposed separate €750 fines for the two offences and described O’Flaherty’s culpability as low. The court heard that Estlin was fatally injured when O’Flaherty’s truck pulled out from behind a bus on 15 March 2017, while her father was driving near Inagh in north Clare.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.