Funeral details for M9 crash teenager removed after vile abuse

The notice for Joe Carthy, a 15 year-old boy, of Clonmullion, Athy, Co Kildare, was published on Monday morning but taken down hours later, amid torrents of abuse over the fatal collision.

McCarthy died along with four other boys after the car they had stolen from Carlow town was driving down the wrong side of the motorway when they hit another car.

The three sisters who sustained catastrophic injuries after the stolen BMW crashed into their car on Sunday morning have been named.

Niamh and Alma Kinsella, who are in their 30s, are in a critical condition after their car collided with a group of teenagers who were driving the wrong way down the motorway in Co Kildare on Sunday.

Their younger sister Ella Hendricken, who is in her 20s, was also seriously injured in the crash along with her seven year old nephew when their Hyundai was hit at a speed of more than 120km/h.

Niamh and Alma are understood to have been in the front of the vehicle while the boy and Ella were in the back of the car near Moone shortly before 3am when they were hit.

Postmortems have be carried out throughout the week on the bodies of Joey Carthy (15) and Jack Kennedy (17) from Athy, Co Kildare; Alex McCarthy (17) and his cousin Jeremy O’Brien (18) from Carlow; and Kamil Pustkowski (17) from Limerick.

It's understood some of the boys are from the Traveller community and charity Pavee Point have been forced to release a statement condemning the online abuse of the teenagers.

"Following the tragedy that took place on the M9 in Co Kildare on Sunday morning, Pavee Point wishes to extend our deepest sympathies to all those involved, to their families, their friends and the wider community," a statement said.

We extend our prayers and thoughts to those who lost their lives and to those who are in hospital with very serious injuries from this senseless tragedy. Our thoughts are also with the first responders who bravely responded to the scene.

The devastation of Sunday, and other tragedies on Irish roads, urges us all to be more responsible.

We are very concerned about the lack of proactive responses from social media platforms in monitoring harmful content which, in this instance, only glorifies harmful behaviour.

We are equally concerned about social media commentary focusing on ethnicity which only serves to stoke vile anti-Traveller racism."