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GARDAÍ ARE APPEALING to the public for information about the death of a man in a hit-and-run that happened in Co Waterford almost 40 years ago.
23-year-old Joseph ‘Joey’ Moroney died following a hit-and-run in Dungarvan on 8 August 1982.
In the early hours of that Sunday, the body of a pedestrian was discovered on the roadside at Bohadoon near Dungarvan, and was later identified as Joey, who was from the area.
It’s understood that Joey had spent the evening socialising at a nearby pub and was struck by a vehicle as he walked home, Gardaí said.
The vehicle involved failed to remain at the scene and the driver has never been identified. A post-mortem examination indicated signs of vehicle impact.
The Moroney family is appealing to anyone with any information to contact Dungarvan Garda Station.
Joey’s sister Kathleen told Crimecall in a programme that aired last night:
“For [my father’s] funeral, my mother couldn’t go to the grave. Where Joey got killed on the road here, she never travelled the road. And the day he [Joey] was buried she never went to the grave. She never went to the grave until she went in herself.
I don’t want anyone punished. I just want someone to come forward to say they killed him on the night and why they didn’t stop or why they didn’t go and get help. It is never too late to say sorry.
Joey’s best friend Mike told Crimecall: “The morning after we leaving Joey in Bohadoon, my mother … came home from Mass to tell us that Joey was prayed for, that he was knocked down and killed.
It was like a dagger sticking me in the heart. It left a big hole in my life when Joey passed away. I hope before I pass away that we will be able to find whoever done this and leave Joey to rest in peace in his grave.
The incident remains the subject of an active investigation. Gardaí are renewing their appeal for witnesses or for any person with any information to speak with gardaí.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Dungarvan Garda Station on (058) 48600, The Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.
You can also contact Crimecall on 1800 40 50 60, Freetext to 50123, or email: crimecall@garda.ie.
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Even though he tried to chat up what he thought was a 16 year old girl, “Judge” Nolan still gives him a suspended sentence? Beggars belief
@COYBIG: see I agree with you and dont get me wrong these people are sick and should get longer sentences but you cant blame the Judge because he is just going by the law and the law should be changed !
@Jim Gold: Judge Nolan is known to give very lenient sentences to paedophiles … why is he allowed to continue to preside over these cases??
@COYBIG: Nolan again????????
Nobody allowed to critise a certain judge any more??
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: Judge Nolan is half the problem with crime in this country.
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: I said he was a joke and my comment was deleted!
In 1994, the Sunday Sport newspaper published a series of pictures of then 15-year-old Linsey Dawn McKenzie as part of their day-by-day countdown to her 16th birthday, on which occasion they published her topless debut.
@Zozzy Zozimus: yes??
@Hans Vos: yes what?
I dont get it, were the sharing pictures of kids to each other or just sharing their own sik fantasies
If these gents were to be hung from a lamppost at high noon tomorrow the outcry from the liberal left and civil liberties groups would be vociferous
@Damien Mooney: yawn. Not only “liberals” and “lefties” oppose public lynchings.
@DJ François: yeah, I’m a positive rascal and I want no part of that. Unless they physically harm a child, then we can talk business
Wait, did the second guy know that the first was a man posing as a girl or did he actually think he was contacting an underage girl?? I don’t see the harm in a guy posing as a girl for some fantasy but a guy trying to chat up what he thought was a young girl is worrying
@Raymond Burke: they were both in on it from my reading. It’s effectively a thought crime.
Very hard to spot the crime here. No images of children and no actual children were involved. Having said that I wouldn’t be calling either of them up to babysit on Saturday evening.
@Anthony Horan: Crime-fiction writers would want to tread carefully around these parts….
Presumably by the same token, the author of the book Lolita would be getting a visit from the cops were he to publish it today….. Ireland1984?
Rough childhood,bullied,blah blah!
When is this going to stop?
Judges being lenient on sexual deviants because of their “remorse”.
https://tag.com/ heres tag.com I reckon this is all fake news.
@Kenneth Finnerty: I think they mean tagged, not tag
@J M Raw: no, that’s how the gardai found a conversation between the 2. Sounds like they were publishing it online (?) or on a forum at least.
They are psychologically sick individuals who should be sentenced to a year of therapy to cure their illness’s not suspend the problem for 12 months as Nolan’s has issued.
what a pile of shit
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