A MEMORIAL plaque will be erected in the memory of talented journalism student Joe Drennan at the site of the hit-and-run where he was killed in October 2023.
The family and friends of the 21-year-old editor of the Limerick Voice newspaper, in his fourth year at University of Limerick, have been campaigning to change concurrent sentencing in cases of deaths.
Joe’s family were informed two weeks ago that the Director of Public Prosecutions had lodged an appeal against a six-and-half-year concurrent sentence imposed on his killer on the grounds it was too lenient.
After being contacted by the family of Joe Drennan, Fianna Fáil councillor Catherine Slattery, raised €1,200 in funding to erect a memorial near the site where he died.
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