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Mon 03 Mar 2007Irish Olympian critical after car crashA member of Ireland's 2004 Olympic equestrian squad in Athens is in a critical condition in an English hospital today following a weekend car crash.Edmond Gibney (32) of Kells, Co Meath, suffered severe head injuries in a car crash in the south of England on Saturday night.