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M9 crash: Garda seeks new training, family remains in hospital as postmortems due on five deceased

Intentionally driving the wrong way to evade gardaí is ‘playing Russian roulette with people’s lives’

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#201
First seen
17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
Last checked
17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
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a8e251beb703...70e7c8
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The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
17 Aug 2026, 15:51 UTC
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Byline
Órla Ryan
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Intentionally driving the wrong way to evade gardaí is ‘playing Russian roulette with people’s lives’
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    M9 crash: Garda seeks new training, family remains in hospital as postmortems due on five deceased

    Intentionally driving the wrong way to evade gardaí is ‘playing Russian roulette with people’s lives’

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    ee9e7fd520ee...a09b45
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#3
Observed
17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
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678,773 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt