A gang of teenagers drove the wrong way against heavy traffic on one of the country’s busiest motorways this week after they were pursued by gardaí.
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they → drive → gardaí
The speeding joyriders can be seen narrowly missing oncoming traffic in a video they posted on social media.
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they → speed → media
Motorists travelling in the opposite direction can be seen frantically flashing their lights at the speeding car as music blares in the background.
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music → travel → background
Earlier, the gang of five boys, aged in their mid-teens, were pursued by gardaí through Leixlip village in Co. Kildare, before driving the wrong way down the busy M4 motorway in the dark.
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gang → age → dark
Terrified motorists were forced to quickly change lanes to avoid a head-on collision.
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motorists → force → collision
The shocking incident occurred this week, almost two months after the devastating M9 motorway crash that resulted in the deaths of five teenagers.
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that → occur → teenagers
An innocent family – three women and a seven-year-old boy – were also left with serious injuries when their vehicle collided with the car driven the wrong way down the M9.
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vehicle → leave → M9
In footage of the latest incident posted on the video sharing platform TikTok, the gang recorded themselves as they drove at speed through Leixlip on Tuesday evening.
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they → post → evening
The footage starts with a Garda van doing a U-turn and pursuing the car.
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van → start → car
In footage of the latest incident posted on the video sharing platform TikTok, the gang recorded themselves as they drove at speed through Leixlip on Tuesday evening
The teenagers can be heard saying, ‘Keep it cool, yeah,’ as the gardaí follow behind.
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gardaí → post → it
One of them says ‘smoked, smoked’ as they overtake other vehicles on the road.
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they → say → road
‘That’s it boys, we’re done,’ another can be heard saying as gardaí continue to tail them.
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gardaí → ’ → them
‘Look behind, it’s Garda… you thought he was messing with us.
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he → look → us
As the gang speed in the direction of Lucan, another Garda car is waiting for them at the Springfield Hotel.
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car → wait → Hotel
This vehicle also pursues the joyriders before the video cuts to the gang driving around the M4 roundabout at the Leixlip/ Celbridge junction.
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video → pursue → junction
They then continue filming as they travel down the slip road in the direction of Sligo.
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they → continue → Sligo
‘You have to go on the wrong side, yeah,’ one of the passengers tells the driver.
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one → have → driver
‘Slow, slow, slow, slow,’ they add as the driver turns the car into oncoming traffic at the bottom of the slip road.
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driver → add → road
The footage starts with a Garda van doing a U-turn and pursuing the car
‘Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,’ another says as they drive into traffic.
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they → start → traffic
Another shouts excitedly: ‘Shut the f*** up’ as the car drives at speed on fast lane into the heavy evening traffic.
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car → shout → traffic
A truck is seen flashing the car as it straddles the fast lane and grass verge as it heads in the wrong direction towards Lucan.
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it → see → Lucan
Motorists driving the correct way do their best to avoid a catastrophe by moving into the slow lane as the speeding car drives at them.
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car → drive → them
The following day, the TikTok account posted another video of a car travelling at more than 160km an hour on the N4 at Woodies in Lucan.
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account → post → Lucan
And on Thursday footage was posted of the same gang being chased by gardaí.
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gang → post → gardaí
The same account continued to post footage yesterday, this time of masked glove-wearing teenagers stealing parked cars.
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teenagers → continue → cars
In one picture, a teenager poses standing on top of one of the stolen vehicles.
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teenager → pose → vehicles
In the comments section on the account under a video, one of the teenagers boasts: ‘We showed them who’s boss.’
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who → boast → them
When another person pointed out that they could have been killed, the same account replies: ‘I’ll jap ur [sic] car next.’
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Last month, the Garda Ombudsman Fiosrú said gardaí acted ‘appropriately’ during its pursuit of car which crashed on the wrong side of the M9 on August 16.
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It had been following the car on the N78 in Athy for a short period before it joined the M9 motorway against the direction of traffic.
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it → follow → traffic
Garda Ombudsman Emily Logan said the force acted ‘in line with relevant policies and procedures as determined by the Garda Commissioner’.
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force → say → Commissioner
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