The 15-year-old, from Thurles, was travelling as a passenger in one of many vehicles, with three different occupants on the R503 at Rearcross, close to Nenagh when it collided with one other automotive simply after 6.45pm.
Ms O’Meara was pronounced lifeless on the scene by emergency companies.
Her physique was transferred to the mortuary at College Hospital Limerick the place a autopsy examination will probably be carried out.
The three different occupants of that automotive – a person in his 20s, a lady in her 20s, and a lady in her mid-teens – and the lady driver of the second automotive had been transported by ambulance to College Hospital Limerick for evaluation. Their accidents are thought of to be non-life-threatening.
Katie O’Meara paid tribute to her “stunning sister” following the information of her tragic dying.
“I like you a lot unconditionally child lady,” she wrote on Fb.
Including: “I nonetheless simply can’t consider that is after taking place to me, what am I meant to do now. How can I transfer ahead with out you, you the place my complete world and extra.”
Cllr Sean Ryan, Cathaoirleach for the Thurles Municipal District instructed the Irish Impartial that all the neighborhood is in shock following the collision, with a “large veil of unhappiness” hanging over the city of Thurles.
He provided his honest condolences to Ms O’Meara’s mom and father Mike and Lisa on the dying of their daughter Leah, who he mentioned was a extremely popular younger lady in Thurles.
It’s understood that the household had simply moved into a brand new home in an property there and had been “very completely happy of their new house” along with her mother and father prominently concerned within the native residents group.
Cllr Ryan mentioned her tragic dying is “past comprehension” and is “extraordinarily unhappy.”
“These items are extraordinarily tragic, significantly the loss of a kid to any household. There was a variety of accidents within the space and we misplaced 4 younger individuals in Clonmel a number of months in the past.
“Now this on prime of it. There was large unhappiness within the space, particularly when youngsters die,” he mentioned, following the dying of Ms O’Meara, who was a third-year scholar in Coláiste Mhuire Co-Ed in Thurles.
He pressured that all the neighborhood is pulling collectively for Ms O’Meara’s household who all of them know very properly and “are considering of them at the moment.”
An area priest for Thurles instructed the Irish Impartial that he feels “so unhappy for all of the households concerned” and that prayers had been mentioned at 7pm Mass this Friday night for Ms O’Meara.
Ms O’Meara’s dying deliver to 25 the variety of individuals killed on Irish roads to this point this yr.
Gardaí are interesting for witnesses to return ahead. Moreover, anybody with digicam footage (together with dashcam) from the realm on the time is requested to offer it to Gardaí.
Anybody with data is requested to contact Nenagh Garda Station at 067 50450, the Garda Confidential Line at 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.