They have been named locally as 16-year-old John Keenan, his cousin Christopher Stokes (19) and their friend Wojcieck Panek (17)
"Apparently there were two women in another car on this pier when the car with the three youths flipped over and went into the water," he said."They're understood to have seen the car flip over into the water, and I'm told that shortly after the accident they could be heard screaming.He said it still unclear exactly what happened.
"It's not immediately clear if the driver of the car was trying to do a u-turn at the pier," he said."They could have been turning into the peer at that bend and... misjudged the distance between the side of the corer and the drop into the water. "It's also understood the car flipped over onto its roof into water that was around four feet deep, and about two feet of that was mud," he added.
Main image: 16-year-old John Keenan is seen in this undated photo. Picture by: Olympic Boxing Club Galway
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