{"id":600237,"date":"2026-08-21T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:04:11","slug":"first-funeral-takes-place-of-teenagers-killed-in-m9-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600237\/","title":{"rendered":"First funeral takes place of teenagers killed in M9 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first of the funerals has taken place of the teenagers killed in last weekend’s crash on the M9 in Co Kildare.<\/p>\n

Five people died when their car which was being driven in the wrong direction down the motorway collided with another car.<\/p>\n

The funeral of 15-year-old Joe Carthy took place in Athy, Co Kildare, this morning.<\/p>\n

An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na maintained checkpoints on the road into town, while officers were also present in the area around the church.<\/p>\n

The priest extended his “sincere sympathy to Joe\u2019s family”, adding “we gather with sorrow in our hearts”.<\/p>\n

The coffin arrived at the church on a white horse-drawn carriage.<\/p>\n

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\nThe coffin of Joe Carthy seen arriving at St Michael the Archangel Church in Athy (Photo: Collins)<\/p>\n

Mourners followed the coffin into the church, wearing white T-shirts depicting an image of the boy while others raised framed photographs.<\/p>\n

A funeral mass for Alex McCarthy, who was 16, is scheduled to take place in Holy Family Church, Askea in Carlow, this afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Denis Nulty has said it is a very tough day for Carlow ahead of a vigil that is taking place tonight in Graiguecullen for the family injured in the crash.<\/p>\n

The three women and a seven-year-old boy, who had been travelling to Dublin Airport, are being treated for serious injuries in hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first of the funerals has taken place of the teenagers killed in last weekend’s crash on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-600237","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\/600237","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=600237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}