Overview
- The appeals court ruled the original penalty unduly lenient and resentenced Kieran Fogarty over the 2023 fatal dangerous driving that killed 21-year-old student Joe Drennan.
- Reports differ on the final term: RTÉ says 13 years in prison, while BreakingNews.ie reports a 14-year sentence with the last year suspended.
- Ms Justice Tara Burns restructured the package by increasing the dangerous driving term by two years with the final year suspended, cutting the firearms term by one year, and setting four years for the drugs offence, with key terms to run consecutively.
- Evidence shown included CCTV and phone footage of Fogarty driving at up to 122km/h in a 50km/h zone, filming himself, and spending 14 seconds wiping the car before fleeing.
- Fogarty was 19 at the time, had 46 prior convictions, was on bail with a no-driving condition, and had five outstanding warrants; Joe Drennan’s family said the decision offers some measure of justice.