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First funerals of teenagers killed in M9 collision take place

Joe Carthy (15) was youngest of the five people who died in a BMW car driven the wrong way down the motorway

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#1514
First seen
21 Aug 2026, 13:49 UTC
Last checked
22 Aug 2026, 04:50 UTC
Version history
2 versions
Current fingerprint
783dc3dfaf65...8ddbfc
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Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

Image URL supplied by The Irish Times.
Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
21 Aug 2026, 14:50 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Ronan McGreevy, David Raleigh
Section
Not supplied
Source-supplied excerpt
Joe Carthy (15) was youngest of the five people who died in a BMW car driven the wrong way down the motorway
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    Revision observed

    First funerals of teenagers killed in M9 collision take place

    Joe Carthy (15) was youngest of the five people who died in a BMW car driven the wrong way down the motorway

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    783dc3dfaf65...8ddbfc
    Capture SHA-256
    0a1d1ba0bbf5...4d0d75
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    Initial capture

    First funeral of teenagers killed in M9 collision takes place in Athy

    Joe Carthy (15) was youngest of the five people who died in a BMW car driven the wrong way down the motorway

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    874989f0f49c...a5d44a
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Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.

  • machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
  • machine language-signal Death or self-harm observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
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Evidence layer

Capture provenance

Capture ID
#883
Observed
21 Aug 2026, 15:05 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
697,065 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt