Nicole Fallon (35) is the second person to be charged following the deaths of husband and wife Anthony Hogg and Georgina Hogg Moore.
Nicole Fallon (35) is the second person to be charged following the deaths of husband and wife Anthony Hogg and Georgina Hogg Moore in Blanchardstown last Christmas.
Mr Hogg, 40, and his wife Georgina, 39, were struck while crossing a road near Blanchardstown Shopping Centre at around 5.45pm on December 26, 2024.
The couple, married with children, lived in the nearby Whitestown area.
John Halpin (45) is currently before the courts charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of the couple, as well as failing to offer assistance at the scene.
John Halpin is charged with dangerous driving
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Both Mr Halpin and Ms Fallon were further charged when they appeared before Blanchardstown District Court on Tuesday.
The court heard they are facing trial in the circuit court after the DPP ruled the allegations were too serious for the district court.
Judge David McHugh adjourned the cases to September for the service of the book of evidence.
Ms Fallon, with an address at Whitestown Avenue in Blanchardstown, is charged with unlicensed and uninsured driving at Whitestown Avenue in Blanchardstown on December 26, 2024.
Detective Garda Niamh Crowe gave evidence of further charging Ms Fallon with two new charges.
It is alleged that Ms Fallon, knowing or believing that another individual committed an offence, namely dangerous driving causing death, did “without reasonable excuse an act with intent to impede the apprehension or prosecution of the said person”.
The second new charge alleges Ms Fallon did an act with intent to impede the apprehension or prosecution of a person while “knowing or believing that person had breached their duties in relation to the occurrence of an accident with intent to escape civil or criminal liability”.
Garda Shane Wood gave evidence to Blanchardstown court of further charging Mr Halpin with four new charges.
Mr Halpin is accused of failing to stop a vehicle, which was allegedly involved in causing injury to Mr Hogg and Ms Hogg Moore.
He is also charged with failing to offer assistance to the couple with the intent to escape civil or criminal liability.
Gda Crowe and Gda Wood said gardai had no objection to bail being extended to the new sheets.
Gardai said the DPP had directed trial on indictment in the circuit court on the charges.
Defence solicitors Tertius Van Eeden and Aoife McNicholl said there was consent to an adjournment to a date in September.
The accused have not yet indicated how they intend pleading to the charges.