Updated: 22:16, 19 Jul 2021
N7 CRASH driver Karl Freeman was laid to rest today as a priest took a swipe at the shocking scenes at his crooked pal Dean Maguire’s farewell.
Freeman was one of three members of a burglary gang who lost their lives in the smash.
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The late Karl Freeman, 26Credit: Stephen Breen
The 26-year-old’s passengers Maguire, 29, and Graham Taylor, 31, were also killed in the late-night smash in west Dublin.
The trio with over 200 convictions between them died instantly after their BMW crashed into a lorry and burst into flames as they drove on the wrong side of the road on July 7.
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“In the May, he underwent surgery at Rosemere Cancer Centre.
“The surgeons used the robotic surgical system bought by Rosemere Cancer Foundation as part of its 20 Years Anniversary Appeal in 2017.
“The following month, he developed a kidney infection and became quite ill.
“There came a time when I didn’t think he would survive.
“Thankfully, a year on and Peter is fully recovered and back at work as a self-employed plumber but when he was ill, we would dream of where we would go in the world if we could.
“We both chose Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales.
The thought of the trip really kept us going.
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April 28, 2021 at 8:24 am
“What is there more marvellous,” an eighth-century Gaelic poem asks, “than the incomparable great story?” The great story of the Irish in Britain is frequently told as a triumph over racism and exclusion – from the era of signs declaring “No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish” to 21st-century success in business, the arts and entertainment.
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The Irish built the roads, canals and housing estates. They cleared away the debris of Luftwaffe bombing raids. In the words of the ballad ‘McAlpine’s Fusiliers’, they “sweated blood and they washed down mud with pints and quarts of beer”. It is a story of hardship and forbearance whose privations are hard to imagine for the modern Irish in Britain.