A young barman who died in a horrific crash in the US at the weekend was a “friendly young man who was always good fun”.
Heartbroken pals and former colleagues of Daniel James Slattery, who worked part-time in Slattery’s pub on Dublin’s Grand Canal Street, for the past six years, said he was “most pleasant”. The 23-year-old, who is the nephew of Irial Slattery, the owner of Slattery’s, is originally from Rathgar in South Dublin and was living and working in Oregon along with his 24-year-old pal Robert Sweeney, from Crumlin.
They were both travelling in a car which flipped and burst into flames on the outskirts of Oregon on Sunday. Daniel, a former student of De La Salle College in Churchtown, was pronounced dead at the scene while Robert remains in a critical condition.
