{"id":541890,"date":"2026-07-10T00:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541890\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T00:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:37:13","slug":"inquest-hears-mother-and-daughters-died-instantly-in-n17-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541890\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquest hears mother and daughters died instantly in N17 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An inquest has heard that a mother and her two young daughters died instantly following a collision involving their car and an oil tanker on the N17 near Claremorris in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that Una Bowden, aged 47, and her daughters Saoirse, aged 10, and 14-year-old Ciara, suffered catastrophic injuries in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The resumed inquests are taking place in Ballina and are being presided over by Mayo District Coroner Dr Eleanor Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Mullaney has more details which some listeners may find distressing,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BOWDEN.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BOWDEN.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inquest has heard that a mother and her two young daughters died instantly following a collision involving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-541890","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\/541890","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=541890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}