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A MAN charged in connection with a fatal road crash that claimed the life of a Clare woman has been returned for trial to Ennis circuit criminal court.  At Ennis District Court, a book of evidence was served on Damien McNamara (38). McNamara, with an address at Lissatunna, Ennistymon, is charged with dangerous driving causing the death of Stephanie Fitzpatrick, at Cloonaveigh, Lahinch Road, near Ennistymon on February 19, 2022.  Ms Fitzpatrick, who was from Lisdoonvarna, was a front seat passenger in the car when the collision occurred.  In court, Garda Joseph Ryan gave evidence of serving a copy of the book of evidence on solicitor Daragh Hassett for his client, Damien McNamara.  Sergeant Louis Moloney told the court the director of public prosecutions (DPP) has directed trial on indictment in the circuit criminal court. Sergeant Moloney said he was applying to have the matter returned to the next sessions of Ennis Circuit Criminal Court. McNamara was remanded on bail …

AT STEPHANIE Fitzpatrick’s funeral on Thursday, Father Robert McNamara paid tribute to the warmth of Stephanie’s family, writes Owen Ryan. Fr McNamara addressed a packed church in Lisdoonvarna, with many more listening outside to the homily. “When I was just in my first week here in Lisdoon, Marian asked me to drop in to see Biddy. I arrived, Biddy had the kettle on, and she asked Marian to put out the good jug for the priest. It was far I was reared from jugs! “Anyway, Biddy then produced this wonderful brown bread, for which I later discovered she was famous, and it was in the sharing of that bread that love and warmth and hospitality became really present, and God was there too undercover. “As the philosopher Wittgenstein had written over his doorway: ‘bidden or unbidden, God is present’. “That home of hospitality and love and welcome was the home that Stephanie came from, and it was a home of …

THE funeral Mass of the late Stephanie Fitzpatrick, who died in a fatal road traffic collision near Lahinch on Saturday, will take place this Thursday. Miss Fitzpatrick will be reposing in the Corpus Christi Church, Lisdoonvarna this Wednesday February 23 from 5pm with funeral prayers at 8pm. Funeral Mass will be held on Thursday February 24 at 11am, with burial afterwards in the Holy Rosary Cemetery Doolin. Those attending Stephanie’s funeral are kindly requested to adhere to HSE guidelines at all times. Stephanie was predeceased by her father Patrick (Pap) and is deeply regretted by her loving mother Biddy, brothers Pauric, Gerry, Noel, Kieran and Fintan, sisters Marian (Leneghan), Carole (Fitzpatrick), Tina (Meyler) and Eilish (Cosgrave), uncles Colie and Sean O’Loughlin, aunt Maura Roberts, brothers in law Brian Leneghan, Kevin Meyler, John Cosgrave and Philip Leahy, sisters in law Sarah Donegan, Danielle Festa, Sinead Byrne and Enara Agerri Leunda, nephews, nieces, relatives and a large circle of friends. May she …

TRAGEDY struck in North Clare at the weekend, with the death of Lisdoonvarna woman Stephanie Fitzpatrick in a car crash, writes Owen Ryan. Ms Fitzpatrick had recently turned 38 years of age and was part of a large and well known family from Doolin Road, Lisdoonvarna. Local councillor Joe Garrihy knows the family well and he said the tragedy has cast a pall of gloom over the area. “It’s an absolutely devastating event. It comes on the back of a number of very sad and difficult events for the parish and the North Clare area. I think it’s particularly tragic when it’s such a young person. “It affects everyone, her mother is a wonderful woman and she must be feeling this at an unimaginable level, losing one of her precious children. “It is surreal and people are walking around in a little bit of a daze. Everyone is so affected by it, deeply affected. She was such a young person, …