Ireland Crime

Named as

Victim

Born

Between November 1998 and November 1999, from the ages reported

Nationality

Irish, as stated in a report

Offences

Fatal road traffic collision, Failing to stop at scene of collision

Where

Co. Monaghan

Reporting

1 report, 17 Nov 2022 to 17 Nov 2022

Outlets

irishmirror.ie

Photographs

as published, with the outlet's credit

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• Family of cyclist killed in Monaghan collision press for inquiry Fatal road traffic collision · Co. Monaghan

  Shane O'Farrell, a 23-year-old Irish law graduate, was killed while cycling near his home in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, on 2 August 2011. The driver, Zigimantas Gridziuska, a Lithuanian man with 42 previous convictions, was out on bail at the time despite a January 2011 Monaghan Circuit Court ruling that he should have been in jail. Gridziuska left the scene but later turned himself in, and in 2013 pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to failing to stop at the scene, receiving a suspended eight-month sentence on condition he leave Ireland. In March 2025, O'Farrell's family met Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan to press for a public inquiry, after a 2023 scoping inquiry recommended against one and a 2018 Dáil motion calling for a Commission of Investigation has not been honoured.

  No stage yetVictim · 1 report

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1. 17 Nov2022
   Otheririshmirror.ie, in Family of cyclist killed in Monaghan collision press for inquiry

   Family of man killed by driver out on bail urge Taoiseach to hold public inquiry

   victim, Shane O'Farrell, 23, male, Irish, irishShane O'Farrell♂23IE

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