Ireland Crime

Nationality

Ukrainian, as stated in a report

Where

Co. Limerick

Reporting

2 reports, 11 Nov 2026 to 11 Nov 2026

Outlets

limerickpost.ie, thejournal.ie

• Sentencing adjourned for teenager over death of nurse in Limerick Co. Limerick

  Nurse Áine O'Reilly, 33, from Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, died when her car was struck on the N24 at Grange West, Boher, shortly after 11pm on Friday 13 February 2026 as she drove to a night shift at Shannondoc in Limerick City. Keelan O'Connell, a 19-year-old man from Scanlon Park, Castleconnell, was allegedly driving a VW Golf at excess speed while under the influence of cannabis and fast gas when he attempted to undertake a Peugeot driven by Ukrainian national Oleksii Horshkov, forcing it into Ms O'Reilly's Nissan Micra; he and two passengers fled the scene, and he presented himself to gardaí the following day. Garda Tony Burke arrested O'Connell at his home on 19 March 2026 and he was charged with dangerous driving causing death, driving without a licence or insurance, and later three further hit-and-run related offences; Judge Patricia Harney refused bail and he has been in custody since March. He pleaded guilty to eight charges before Judge Colin Daly at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court in October 2026, and at a sentencing hearing on 11 November 2026, where victim impact statements were read, Judge Mary Morrissey adjourned sentencing to 17 November 2026.

  Convicted, 10 Nov 2026Victim · Dangerous driving causing death, Co. Limerick2 reports

Each entry shows how that report described them.

1. 11 Nov2026
   In courtlimerickpost.ie, in Sentencing adjourned for teenager over death of nurse in Limerick

   Family of nurse killed by hit-and-run drug-driver left with ‘life sentence’ of grief

   victim, Oleksii Horshkov, male, UkrainianOleksii Horshkov♂UA
2. 11 Nov2026
   In courtthejournal.ie, in Sentencing adjourned for teenager over death of nurse in Limerick

   Father of nurse killed by disqualified driver says family left with 'life sentence' of grief

   victim, Oleksii Horshkov, male, UkrainianOleksii Horshkov♂UA

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