A WEEKEND of harrowing tragedies in the greater Galway area over the Whit Weekend has left several families and communities grieving with six lives lost.
The Moycullen area was in a state of shock following the death of a local woman on Sunday afternoon last after she was attacked by two dogs.
Mrs. Theresa McDonagh (64) from Knockarasser, Moycullen, died after being attacked by two Bulmastiff dogs in the backgarden of her son’s house at Knockarasser.
Emergency services were called after the alarm was raised but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene – both dogs were shot dead by a neighbour who arrived at the tragedy.
The late Mrs. McDonagh will be laid to rest in Moycullen Cemetery in Moycullen later today (Thursday) after Requiem Mass in the local Church of the Immaculate Conception at 12 noon.
Meanwhile a horror single vehicle crash near Tourmakeady in Mayo in the early hours of Sunday morning last claimed the lives of a 20-year-old man from Clonbur and a 20-year-old woman from Tourmakeady.
Sean Halloran from Ballynonagh, Clonbur, was killed in the accident while another passenger in the car – Orla O’Malley from Cordroon, Cross, Co. Mayo – died on Monday at Castlebar General Hospital, as a result of injuries suffered in the crash.
There was also great sadness in the Salthill area of Galway and Frenchpark, Roscommon, at the sudden passing of well-known auctioneer and estate agent, Oisín Allman (42), who died suddenly after falling ill at the wheel of his car on Saturday last.
He was rushed by ambulance from the M6 motorway close to Athlone to Portiuncula Hospital but was pronounced dead there later. A front seat passenger in the car was hospitalised but released later.
On Sunday evening last, a 28-year-old man died after being rescued from the Corrib earlier that day.
Meanwhile the body of a man found washed up near Palmer’s Rock in Salthill has been named locally as Martin Mullen from Inverin. He is understood to be in his mid-50s and had only been missing for a short time. The death is being treated as a tragic incident.
See full story in this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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