A north Clare man admitted to ‘drinking all day’ at a Christening celebration before crashing his car into a tree - a crash that claimed the life of his girlfriend on the main road leading out of the seaside resort of Lahinch two years ago.
Ms Fitzpatrick was a front seat passenger and was pronounced dead at the scene at 7.25pm and died from multiple traumatic injuries. Garda Gleeson was on the scene and said that Mr McNamara was "in an agitated and distressed state and made numerous admissions about being drunk, drinking all day, killing his best friend and wanting to be locked up for 20 years”.
Members of both families were in attendance at the sentencing hearing and Judge Comerford said: "That may not seem a lot to the Fitzpatrick family and may seem an awful lot to McNamara family but I do have to make a reasonable proportionate assessment of what the appropriate sentence should be." Judge Comerford said that in the crash there was no evidence of braking of any kind before impact.He commented: "As far as culpability goes it is very serious.” Judge Comerford said that Mr McNamara has shown genuine remorse, was of previous good character and had pleaded guilty but that “a significant sentence has to be imposed”.
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