Funeral notice for M9 crash teenager removed after abusive online condolences

The notice for Joe Carthy, 15, of Clonmullion, Athy, Co Kildare, was published on Monday morning but was taken down just hours later, amid a backlash over the circumstances of the fatal collision

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Nicola Donnelly

18:37, 18 Aug 2026Updated 18:47, 18 Aug 2026

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The funeral notice for one of the five teenagers killed in Sunday mornings M9 crash has been removed from RIP.ie after a flood of angry and abusive comments appeared in its online condolences section.

The notice for Joe Carthy, 15, of Clonmullion, Athy, Co Kildare, was published on Monday morning but was taken down just hours later, amid a backlash over the circumstances of the fatal collision.

The other four teenagers who died, Kamil Pustkowski, 17, from Limerick; Jack Kennedy, 17, from Athy; Jeremy OBrien, 18, from Carlow; and Alex McCarthy, 17, also from Carlow, have not yet had funeral notices published.

[The five teenagers who died were in a car that had been bought five days earlier.]

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The five teenagers who died were in a car that had been bought five days earlier.

It is understood that the death notice was removed due to an influx of negative and abusive comments in the condolences section where people expressed their anger about the circumstances in which the group of teens drove the BMW the wrong way down the M9 motorway.

The BMW was involved in a head-on collision with a Hyundai near Moone, Co Kildare, killing all five teenagers instantly.

The innocent driver and passengers in the Hyundai, sisters Alma and Niamh Kinsella, aged in their 30s, and their younger sister Ella Hendricken, in her 20s, were seriously injured in the collision.

Ellas seven-year-old nephew, who was a rear-seat passenger in their car when it was hit by the BMW, is also seriously injured.

The sisters and the boy were travelling to Dublin Airport for a flight to the UK for a wedding.

The Irish TImes has reported that RIP.ie, which is owned by The Irish Times Group, said it did not comment on individual funeral notices.

Undertaker Joe Rigney, of Rigney's Funeral Directors, declined to comment on the removal of the notice, the Irish Times reports.

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