The deceased couple\u2019s teenage daughter, who was also injured in the incident, told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court<\/a> that seeing her parents being killed was traumatising. She became emotional when she said she would not have anyone to walk her down the aisle.<\/p>\n John Halpin (46) of Whitestown Avenue, Blanchardstown, Dublin had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of Anthony (Anto) Hogg (40), and 39-year-old Georgina Hogg Moore in Blanchardstown on December 26th, 2024. At the time he struck them, he was driving through a red light.<\/p>\n Halpin further pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to stop and leaving the scene of an accident, knowing that an injury had been caused, on the same date.<\/p>\n Separately, Nicole Fallon (36) also of Whitestown Avenue, pleaded guilty to impeding the apprehension of John Halpin, knowing he had committed the offence of dangerous driving causing death.<\/p>\n The Hoggs\u2019 daughter told garda\u00ed they knew it was safe to cross when the amber light came on for traffic. She was just ahead of her parents, who were side by side behind her. She said she heard her mother scream and then saw a car, and felt herself being hit.<\/p>\n Passing doctors made efforts to save the couple, but Hogg Moore, whose body had been carried almost 40 metres up the road during the impact, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n Anthony Hogg died later that evening in hospital. Postmortem exams found the couple had died of multiple traumatic injuries resulting from the incident. <\/p>\n Forensic examiners found that the car was doing 85km per hour in a 60km per hour area, and there were no signs of emergency braking on the road.<\/p>\n Garda\u00ed went to the house at which the car was registered that evening and asked Fallon where her partner was. She said she didn\u2019t know and gave them an incorrect phone number for him. <\/p>\n Halpin handed himself in around 10pm that evening. He was arrested and interviewed, but was deemed unfit for interview the following morning due to nausea and drowsiness.<\/p>\n Halpin told garda\u00ed he had been exhausted, but wasn\u2019t driving fast. He said he didn\u2019t see the red light. He said he didn\u2019t know why he had left the scene.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t explain it,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought I hit someone. I didn\u2019t know what it was. I left in sheer panic. I didn\u2019t know how bad it was.\u201d<\/p>\n When Fallon was questioned, she initially repeated what she had said on the evening of the collision. However, she then said that her partner had driven home and spoken to her, and she had driven the car to Tyrrelstown, where it was found around the time Halpin was handing himself in.<\/p>\n![\"Anthony](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/KZK3O3CESBE5LPNFBTUS4M2ZBA.JPG\")
Anthony Hogg (40) and his wife Georgina (39). Photograph: Facebook <\/p>\n