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Aug 10 2023
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‘Jerry’s death won’t be in vain’ by Páraic McMahon paraic@clareecho.ie
l Rebecca Crowe, Anne-Marie McGann, Sinead O’Keeffe and Niamh Mulqueen at the victory homecoming for Clare’s All-Ireland winning junior camogie side Photo by John Mangan
A LISDOONVARNA woman has vowed to continue her fight for safe roads in North Clare after her husband died in a collision. Helga Himmelsbach (inset) became a widow on July 27 when her beloved husband Jerry O’Connor (71), who was travelling on a motorbike, collided with a car on the N67 in Ballyvaughan. Almost 100 people attended a demonstration last Thursday calling for changes to the road network infrastructure to limit the amount of accidents in North Clare.
Another event takes place this Thursday at 10:30am in Ballyvaughan as the effort to improve the North Clare road network continues. “It is a week I had never thought would come, I can’t get it into my head, this is my way of trying to stay alive and channel my energy so that Jerry’s death would not have been in vain,” Helga told The Clare Echo. She added, “I will do whatever it takes until we get recognition”. Full Story Page 12-13