{"id":538210,"date":"2026-07-07T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538210\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:41:11","slug":"funerals-of-irish-trio-who-died-in-malaga-car-crash-set-for-later-in-week-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538210\/","title":{"rendered":"Funerals of Irish trio who died in M\u00e1laga car crash set for later in week \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The funerals of three people from Mullingar who died in a car crash in southern Spain<\/a> late last month are to be held on Thursday and Friday. <\/p>\n

Mark McCullagh-Crichton and Michaela Newcombe, who were in a relationship, will have their funeral Masses three hours apart on Thursday in the Cathedral of Christ the King in the Co Westmeath town, according to notices posted on Rip.ie<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark McCullagh-Crichton\u2019s sister-in-law, Amy McCullagh (n\u00e9e Wallace-Maguire), also died in the M\u00e1laga collision. Originally from Ballynacargy, some 15km from Mullingar, her funeral Mass will take place on Friday in the parish church. <\/p>\n

She is survived by her husband Ian, who sustained serious injuries but survived the crash, as well as their three children. <\/p>\n

The families of the deceased have asked for donations to the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust, which facilitates the return to Ireland of the bodies of people who have died abroad.<\/p>\n

The three deceased were remembered in the Mullingar area<\/a> as \u201ckind people\u201d who were active in their communities. A minute\u2019s silence was held at a Westmeath County Council meeting last week and a public book of condolence was opened in the salon where Michaela Newcombe worked.<\/p>\n

The two couples had travelled to southern Spain for a holiday and died when their rented car crash at about 2.30am on June 28th. Police said the car went through a road barrier, plunged down an embankment and ended up on a nearby street. <\/p>\n

An investigation into the incident is ongoing and information regarding the likely cause of the crash is yet to be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funerals of three people from Mullingar who died in a car crash in southern Spain late last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-538210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}