Irish groom, 20, dies in horror crash just hours before he was due to tie the knot – as hundreds of wedding guests attend church for memorial instead
- Myles Harty was in the front passenger seat of a car that crashed in Limerick
- His heartbroken bride Kate Quilligan today released balloons in his memory
- Hundreds of family and friends mourned outside church pair were to marry in
A 20-year-old groom has been killed in a fireball three-car crash just hours before he was due to get married.
Myles Harty was in the front passenger seat of a car that smashed into a pole at around 1am at Cragmore on the Askeaton to Rathkeale Road in Limerick.
It is believed the crash happened after another car drove the wrong way down a motorway when a vehicle was seen driving toward oncoming traffic on the M6 at 7.30pm on Thursday.
Myles Harty (pictured with his bride Kate Quilligan) was in the front passenger seat of a car that smashed into a pole at around 1am at Cragmore on the Askeaton to Rathkeale Road in Limerick
Ms Quilligan today released balloons in his memory at St Munchin’s Church in Limerick city where the pair were due to get married
His heartbroken bride Kate Quilligan today released balloons in his memory at St Munchin’s Church in Limerick city where the pair were due to get married.
She told The Sun: ‘I love you forever. It will always be me and you no matter what.
‘I love you unconditionally my gentle giant, you didn’t deserve this my handsome baby boy.’
Ms Quilligan and hundreds of other family and friends mourned outside the church the wedding was supposed to take place in and released dozens of heart-shaped balloons.
Ms Quilligan said: ‘I love you forever. It will always be me and you no matter what. I love you unconditionally my gentle giant, you didn’t deserve this my handsome baby boy’
Ms Quilligan and hundreds of other family and friends mourned outside the church the wedding was supposed to take place in and released dozens of heart-shaped balloons
The Askeaton Parish priest Friar Sean O’Longaig said: ‘The families are now switching from a wedding to a funeral.
Fr Sean O’Longaigh, Askeaton Parish Priest, said Myles was well-known in his rural west Limerick community… The family must be in bits.’
A teenager who is believed to have been driving the car that Myles was in has been arrested and the Garda in Galway are still trying to identify all the victims in the three-car smash.