It will be up to Government to decide “at a later stage” whether to hold a full public inquiry into the circumstances around the death of Shane O’Farrell, according to Minister of State Timmy Dooley.
He was responding to renewed calls for an inquiry which was previously strongly backed by Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan before he was appointed as Minister for Justice.
Shane O’Farrell was a 23-year-old law graduate when he was killed in a hit-and-run in August 2013.
He was cycling home, near Carrickmacross in Co Monaghan, when he was struck by a car driven by Zigimantas Gridziuska who was, at the time, on bail in relation to number of other incidents -…