The court heard Michael Lucey would live with the guilt of being responsible for the death of Gobnait Twomey for the rest of his life
A man who had attended the funeral earlier that day of his father got in to a car over the limit and knocked down and killed a woman who had travelled to Cork for the requiem mass of her uncle, a court has heard.
Mr Lucey had attended a reception after the funeral of his father. He made a decision to drive home in the car of another man whom it was felt had too much too drink. Dash cam footage of the scene obtained by gardai revealed that Mr Lucey had been driving at an average speed of just 27.3 kilometres per hour and was under the speed limit.
Jay Ammari, the partner of Ms Twomey, made a powerful victim impact statement. He said he was at their home in Dublin at 5am on the 13th of December 2022 having attended a work Christmas party He was woken by a knock at the door. Two gardai informed him that his beloved Gobnait had died. The French national said that since the sudden death of his partner his life has been completely empty. He pays his rent and bills and goes to work but his existence feels meaningless.