Ok, so we were all horrified when we heard on the news that an innocent grandmother was murdered by a drunk driver. A drunk driver who was going the wrong way on the Blue Route after getting bombed and stoned. Yep, Roisin O'Neill sounds like a blooming rose allrighty.

This babe KNEW, she KNEW she was going the wrong way and did it anyway - speeding up the Blue Route for a few miles beeping her horn and flashing her lights instead of JUST PULLING OVER. Should this young woman rot in jail for this?

And this is the woman whose brother has killed someone - her brother is Sean O'Neill who shot a high school classmate. And daddyio also has issues and is facing deportation back to the old country, so what in heaven's name is the rest of the family like? And the brother who shot his classmate? Earlier this month he got popped for violating probation.

Check out the ink on this. This IS amazing. Of course it is also why bouncers and bartenders have to be hyper vigilent of who comes into a place to drink...and know that there is a scholarship set up in the memory of the woman murdered by this drunk driver. This woman was Patricia Waggoner of Brimfield, MA and she was quite a woman. Here is the scholarship fund info:

All of us remember Pat as being so colorful and full of fire! She had a multitude of ideas and was not afraid to express them or challenge any of us to get them started. It was the possibilities that excited her. Yes, she approached everything that way!

...About Pat's Scholarship Fund
So many of Pats friends, family and colleagues have asked if they can do something or donate to something in Pat's name. The idea is to perpetuate Pat's love of mentoring, her work at Mass College of Art and Design on the DRU and Alumni Board, and lastly, her love for the school that helped establish her creative career......How to send your donation direct to MassArt :
If you do not use online and wish to send a check...Gifts should be payable to “MassArt Foundation” with “Waggoner Scholarship Fund” in the memo line. Checks go to:

MassArt Foundation
621 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
ATT: Waggoner Scholarship Fund

Friends Mourn Brimfield Drunk Driving Victim

A Hampden County community is mourning the loss of one of their friends. Patricia Murphy Waggoner was killed in a drunk driving accident. On Friday, the driver was charged with her death. Her friends want people to remember her and justice to be served.

Its been nearly a month since Wendy Thomas's friend and neighbor died at the hands of a drunk driver. But the memories of Patricia Murphy Waggoner are far from fading. "There was a big life that she brought to everyone around her because she was so outgoing," said Thomas.

63 year-old Waggoner lived in Brimfield with her boyfriend for the past fifteen years. Last month she was driving to Pennsylvania to visit her grandchildren. On her way there she was hit head-on by 22 year-old Roisin O'Neill who was driving with twice the legal alcohol limit and going north in the southbound lane of the highway.

Have any of you ever been to Brimfield, MA? I have. It's a beautiful place full of exceptionally nice people. It's small town New England at it's best and it is home to some of the most famous outside antiques shows every year.

Anyway, here is more:

Posted on Fri, Sep. 12, 2008
Head-on collision on Pa.’s Blue Route kills 1
By Mari A. Schaefer
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

A woman driving an SUV heading north in the southbound lanes of the Blue Route early yesterday crashed head-on into another car, killing the other driver.

Roisin O'Neill, 22, of Newtown Square, the driver of the SUV, was flown to Temple University Hospital and admitted....Her father, Sean O'Neill Sr., was arrested in June by federal agents who said he had lied about his membership in what authorities called an Irish terrorist organization to obtain a green card. He also faces weapons charges

Posted on Thu, Sep. 18, 2008
Montgomery County to charge driver in fatal I-476 crash
By Kathleen Brady Shea
Inquirer Staff Writer

A Montgomery County prosecutor said yesterday that he expected to file charges in connection with a deadly crash on the Blue Route last week.
Kevin Steele, Montgomery County's first assistant district attorney, declined to elaborate on the specific offenses or a time frame for charging the driver, Roisin O'Neill, 22, of Newtown Square.

O'Neill was driving a Ford Escape SUV north in the southbound lanes of I-476 in Plymouth Township shortly before 1 a.m. on Friday when she drove head-on into a Mazda 6 driven by Patricia Murphy Waggoner, 63, of Brimfield, Mass., authorities said.

Waggoner was pronounced dead at the scene. She was 20 minutes from her destination - the Media home of two of her grandchildren - when the collision occurred, said her son, Jeff Waggoner of Atlanta.

Woman faces homicide charges in Montco
By MARGARET GIBBONS 10/13/2008

NORRISTOWN — A "falling down drunk" Delaware County woman made some bad decisions during the early morning hours of Sept. 12, according to Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman.

Those decisions cost an innocent Massachusetts grandmother her life.

And now Roisin O'Neill, 22, of Newtown Square, is being held criminally responsible for those mistakes and their deadly results.

Authorities on Friday announced O'Neill's arrest, accusing her of being drunk when she drove on the Blue Route in the wrong direction and at a high rate of speed before her vehicle slammed into a car driven by 63-year-old Patricia Waggoner...."One drunk driver can devastate many, many people's lives," said Ferman. "It is the loss of one life but that family has been irretrievably damaged. The senselessness of it is really overwhelming. Things like this are so easy to prevent."

O'Neill was arraigned before District Judge Deborah A. Lukens on charges of homicide by motor vehicle-drunk driving, recklessly endangering others and related offenses for the episode in which other drivers were forced to swerve their vehicles to avoid a fate similar to that of Waggoner....Under conditions of her bail, O'Neill is barred from leaving her family's residence other than for medical appointments and from driving a motor vehicle. In addition, she has to surrender her driver's license and passport.

O'Neill waived her preliminary hearing, which means that her next court appearance will be at the county courthouse when she is formally arraigned on the charges against her. That hearing is scheduled for Dec. 3.

According to events detailed in the criminal complaint:

O'Neill went with friends to Brownies 23 East Bar in Ardmore to hear a Grateful Dead cover band, arriving at the bar on Sept. 11 shortly after 10 p.m. She walked outside the bar shortly after midnight to have a cigarette but a bar employee refused to allow her to re-enter the bar because he believed she appeared visibly intoxicated. She spurned his request to call her a cab... O'Neill drove off in a 2006 Ford Escape, traveling about five miles from the bar to West Conshohocken where she drove up an exit ramp at Matsonford Road and DeHaven Street and onto the Blue Route, driving north in the southbound lanes. She ignored numerous signs indicating that she was driving in the wrong direction...."She (O'Neill) should have followed the plan she had with her friends, she should have followed the advice of people at the bar, she should never have gotten behind the wheel of a car and her decisions that night had tragic consequences," said Ferman.

Posted on Sat, Oct. 11, 2008
O'Neill family troubles continue as daughter charged in fatal DUI
By WILLIAM BENDER
Philadelphia Daily News
215-854-5255

In summer 2006, a drunken Sean O'Neill Jr., then 17 years old, accidentally shot and killed a Cardinal O'Hara High classmate with his father's handgun on the driveway of the palatial O'Neill estate that straddles Delaware and Chester counties.
He was released in June after spending nine months in a juvenile facility in western Pennsylvania.

But two days later, the feds raided the mansion and arrested his father, Sean O'Neill Sr., 48, the former owner of Maggie O'Neill's Irish Pub and Restaurant in Drexel Hill, for allegedly lying to immigration officials about his past membership in a group associated with the Irish Republican Army.

Now, another member of the affluent O'Neill clan is facing jail time.

Roisin O'Neill, 22, was charged yesterday with vehicular homicide while driving under the influence. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said O'Neill was "falling down drunk" when she left a Main Line bar on the morning of Sept. 12 and drove north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 476.

Daily Local: Teenage shooter violates probation Thursday, October 9, 2008 11:48 AM EDT

WEST CHESTER — The teenager who killed his friend during a drunken incident at a house party in 2006 was sentenced Tuesday for violating probation.

Sean Owen O'Neill Jr., 19, of Willistown, who served time as a juvenile for the shooting death of Scott Sheridan, was found to have violated his probation. At a hearing before Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas Gavin, he was sentenced to Youth Forestry Camp 2 in Carbon County for "a period of time the camp deems appropriate."

Assistant District Attorney Renee Merion said O'Neill will have a hearing at the camp after six months, but he could serve a shorter term depending on his behavior.

Under terms of his probation, O'Neill was permitted to leave his home only for school, work, official appointments or in the company of his parents. O'Neill's parents reported to a probation officer that he spent two nights at his girlfriend's home.

"I indicated there would be zero tolerance for violation of the court order," Gavin said....

Posted on Tue, Sep. 30, 2008
Probation hearing for youth in fatal Willistown shooting
By Kathleen Brady Shea
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

DAUGHTER OF IRA MAN FACING DEPORTATION FROM US IN DEATH CRASH
By Ian Markham-Smith - Posted on 14 September 2008

The daughter of an Irish millionaire facing the boot from the United States after police discovered his secret IRA past has been involved in a killer crash.
Sean Owen O'Neill Snr's daughter is the second of his children to be blamed for causing a death in America. Police say 22-year-old Roisin O'Neill was driving in the wrong direction on a motorway outside Philadelphia when her car crashed head-on into another vehicle, killing the elderly woman driver. Roisin was allegedly behind the wheel of an SUV heading north in the southbound lanes of the Blue Route in the early hours of Friday morning when the bloody collision occurred...The smash is the latest in a series of troubles to hit Philadelphia businessman O'Neill Snr....his son Sean Owen O'Neill Jnr, now 17, accidentally shot his friend dead with a gun owned by his dad during a raucous drinks party at the family's luxury home in the Philadelphia suburb of Newtown Square. O'Neill Snr was 17 and living in the North when he admitted being a member of Fianna na h'Eireann - a defunct radical youth group with IRA ties. The 49-year-old tycoon, who made his cash from a pub and construction firm, was jailed in Ulster in 1977.
He relocated to the US in 1983 but did not reveal the conviction when he applied to stay.

Daily Local: Cop shop: State police goes to videotape for crash

Posted on Mon, Jul. 16, 2007
Killer of friend fighting hard time
By Kathleen Brady Shea
Inquirer Staff Writer

There's no question that the events of Sept. 1, 2006, were tragic: A high school senior fatally shot his friend after a night of drinking and gunplay at his affluent Willistown Township home.

What's in dispute is whether Sean Owen O'Neill - who was 17 when he killed Scott Sheridan, an expectant father and Cardinal O'Hara classmate - should be tried as an adult for involuntary manslaughter and related offenses.

The prosecutor contends that O'Neill, surrounded by enabling parents and friends, is so immersed in "a culture of underage drinking" that he has continued his reckless ways on bail, pulling a knife and breaking another teen's nose at a party in March....In his memorandum, the prosecutor argued that the impact of the killing on the community, coupled with O'Neill's previous citations for underage drinking and marijuana possession, make him unsuitable for less than three years of juvenile supervision.

"Our courts give more supervision for stealing and using another's credit card," Conte wrote.

Of more concern, he wrote, was O'Neill's subsequent behavior at drinking party on St. Patrick's Day at the Penn Valley home of Rick Rueda, a Malvern Prep grad.