On Wednesday's 'Déise Today', Damien was talking to Hilary Murphy. Hilary is the father of the deceased Katie Murphy who died in a car crash on October 5, 2016.
Edward O'Shea, now aged 19, from Magnh, Fenor, Co Waterford, received a 14-month prison sentence this week for careless driving and causing the death of Katie.
Judge Eugene O'Kelly, who also disqualified O'Shea from driving for six years, said some young drivers treated the roads “as some form of racetrack” without any regard for their passengers or other road users.
Hilary started off the interview by going into the details of that day and the events that led up to the crash. He recalled how he was at a football match that his son was playing a game in Villa FC that night when he received a call from a parent of a friend of Katie's to tell him that there had been an accident and that he should get out to Tramore as quick as he could.
He recalls the scene and seeing "Katie's hand went limp off the side of the stretcher; at that point, I knew that we could lose her".
O'Shea was driving a high-powered, modified Toyota coupé registered in the name of his family's garage business – Edward O'Shea's that was capable reaching speeds of over 150 km/h.
Mr Murphy told of how his life is “unrecognisable”.
“Every morning I wake up, and the first thing that comes to mind is that Katie is gone.” Katie had been cremated, and her urn now resides in their room and he "pats her on the head before he goes to bed and does it first thing in the morning".
If you want to listen to the full heartbreaking interview, you can listen here (SKIP TO ONE MINUTE IN)
There was also talk on the brilliant story of how a neighbour helped a family's 21-month-year-old child with a liver transplant in order to make sure that the baby survived!
