John Tierney, friend and classmate, died in 1996 in a car accident in Limerick. I debated long and hard with myself all day whether I should post this or not. I searched extensively on various Irish news sites for reports on the crash but to no avail. Their archives just don’t go back that far. A search on ireland.com found an article about it (second link on that page), but it’s subscription only so I can’t link to it. It seems so meager and little to do but hopefully if my classmates google for details about the accident they’ll find my webpage and this commentry.
The photo below is a detail from the college newsletter of the week following the accident. I found it while cleaning up at home and took a photo of it with my digital camera.
If you’re reading this and you write a weblog, please link to this commentry with John’s name in the link, I want there to be something to find..
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I came across this message again while I was looking through my photos in Lightroom. Reading it again, the name of John’s home town, Johnswell in Co. Kilkenny, struck me as familiar. We’d stopped at a garage in the town last week on the way back from Dublin.
I think I discovered his grave again around the time I wrote this blog post 22 years ago, but I have only the vaguest memory of doing that now.