18-year-old Britain’s Got Talent star was killed in a car accident when he was in the front passenger seat in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Oran McConville, who was a talented footballer, he found fame as a child when his school choir took part in the 2017 series of the ITV competition, reaching the semi-finals.
The teenage horror comes just six weeks after Oran’s father Paddy’s own sudden ‘untimely passing’ on February 21.
Meanwhile, the family had been hit by tragedy before – when his 11-year-old sister was also killed after being knocked down by a Volkswagen people carrier sixteen years ago.
In a heartbreaking tribute from the siblings’ mother Amanda, just days before Oran’s death, she bid her husband goodbye saying simply: ‘Paddy and Rachael, Together Again.’
Oran’s tragic death early on Saturday morning has brought devastating shock and grief to his family, to his friends, the local community here and the wider community around it.
Oran competed in Britain’s Got Talent with St Patrick’s Primary School choir in the year pianist Tokio Myers won the gong.
Singing Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know in their audition, they stunned the judges, with Simon Cowell saying: ‘You are having a good time, and that is the most important thing. That was a great audition.’
