Over the next few days, five families will make funeral arrangements and bury five teenagers. From what I’ve seen online, there is very little public sympathy for the boys, mostly because their wanton actions not only led to their own deaths but caused catastrophic and serious injures to four innocent people, including a 7 year old child.
The five dead teenagers are Joe Carthy (15), Jack Kennedy (17), Alex McCarthy (17) Jeremy O’Brien (18) and Kamil Pustkowski (17). They were frighteningly young. Earlier this week, a funeral notice for Joe Carthy on RIP.ie was taken down because it had attracted hundreds of negative and angry comments.
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