DAUGHTER OF IRA MAN FACING DEPORTATION FROM US IN DEATH CRASH

     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.
     She was flown to Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital, where she is currently being treated for her serious injuries.
     Police were withholding the name of the 63-year-old woman who was killed in the other vehicle until her next of kin could be notified.
     Kevin Steele of the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said the deadly crash was under investigation.
     Roisin's Co Tyrone-born father is currently on US$2.5 million dollars bail to stay out of jail while he awaits a deportation hearing.
     The smash is the latest in a series of troubles to hit Philadelphia businessman O'Neill Snr.
     His Provo links came to light after 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.
     O'Neill Snr has now been charged with lying to obtain a Green Card, the document which allows foreigners to live and work in the US.
     He also faces weapons charges because Federal agents are also looking at claims he lied about being born in the US and his date of birth to get guns and silencers.
     O'Neill was arrested in June just two days after his son was freed from a juvenile detention jail after serving a sentence for shooting his best mate Scott Sheridan in the face with his dad's .45 gun in 2006 during a boozy underage bash at his home while his parents were away for the weekend.
     Police said that they received an emergency call just before 1 a.m. on Friday saying a car was driving the wrong way on I-476.
     Moments later, they were informed that there was an accident near Milepost 19, north of the Ridge Pike exits in Plymouth Township.
     When they arrived, police found a 2006 Ford Escape driven by Roisin O'Neill facing north and blocking the centre lane. The other car, a Mazda 6, was facing southwest and resting against a guardrail on the right shoulder of the southbound lane.
     Both cars had extensive front-end damage.
     A woman who answered the phone at Roisin O'Neill's room at the Temple hospital and identified herself as her mother on Saturday said her daughter was asleep. She then hung up.
     O'Neill Snr was ordered to hand over the whopping mount of bail because prosecutors wanted to keep him behind bars and a judge branded him a 'flight risk.'
     He was forced to put his suburban Philadelphia mansion up as collateral to pay the huge bail.
     Prosecutors fear O'Neill Snr might use his contacts in Ireland to help him escape justice.