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Teenager killed in Dublin after motorcycle hit lamppost

A pillion passenger was seriously injured.

GARDAÍ IN COOLOCK in Dublin are investigating a fatal road traffic crash which left a teenager dead.

The single-vehicle crash occurred at Clarehall, Dublin 17 at around 4.20pm this afternoon.

An 18-year-old male motorcyclist was fatally injured when his motorcycle struck a lamppost. He was pronounced dead at the scene and his body removed to Beaumont Hospital. A 23-year-old male pillion passenger was seriously injured and has been taken to the Mater Hospital.

This stretch of road is currently closed to facilitate an examination by Garda forensic collision investigators and local diversions are in place.

Gardai are appealing for witnesses to contact Coolock Garda Station on 01-666 4200, the Garda Confidential Telephone Line 1800 666 111 or any garda station.

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    Mute Frog Náireach
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    Apr 21st 2017, 1:02 PM

    There’s a growing instability in the North these days. Strong leadership is needed North and South, to prevent the outbreak of violence, and to maintain the peace.

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    Mute oneill
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    Apr 21st 2017, 1:57 PM

    @Frog Náireach: There is peace and there is no chance of the violent past returning. These types of attacks are being carried out by Loyalists against immigrants or other loyalist gang members. They dont threaten the stability of the North.

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    Mute Frog Náireach
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    Apr 21st 2017, 5:38 PM

    @oneill: There’s obviously some chance. Alot of crazy people. and it is violent and therefore threatens the peace

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    Apr 21st 2017, 7:44 PM

    You see the craziness in the way they drive down here alone. And in their laws where guilt is presumed and innocence must be proven. It’s sui generis. A place apart up there beyond the bogs and rushes and abandoned wastes of North Cavan and Fermanagh. Leave them where they are another 300 years might be fit for civilised company then.

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    Mute Leo Powers
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    Apr 22nd 2017, 5:35 AM

    @John O’Driscoll: You on the sauce early tonight then? You sound like a teenage girl trying to imbibe the spirit Seamus Heaney in a bid to sound intellectual. The only abandoned waste here is your own grasp of reality. If you’re an example of this “civilised company” that is lacking everywhere North of Cavan ; then god help us. Pompous little man.

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    Apr 22nd 2017, 7:06 AM

    @John O’Driscoll: you do realise your tarring mindset sounds like it’s 300 years old?

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    Apr 21st 2017, 7:42 PM

    More renewable hate initiatives. Never let them in they are different from us. Been too long and would be a disaster. They remember 400 years ago like it was yesterday and every carefully planned insult murder and wrong done since. Done by the “other side” that is. Never their own. Or “mines” as they say in that curious argot.

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