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Sarah Slater

Third victim of Galway pier tragedy remembered as 'amazing and kindhearted' young man who always had a smile

The ashes of one of three teenagers killed when their car plunged off a pier in Galway in the early hours of last Saturday are to be interned on Friday in Co Kilkenny.

Wojciech Panek, 17, from the medieval village of Graiguenemanagh, Co Kilkenny was due to turn 18 shortly and was undertaking an apprentice carpenter course in Galway.

Gardaí said they received a report of a car in the water at Menlo Pier located on the river Corrib on the outskirts of Galway city at around 2.40am.

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