A former GAA player who was selected for the Kilkenny senior hurling team was killed in a single vehicle accident in Kilkenny in the early hours of Friday morning.
James “Shiner” Nolan, 34, who was named locally from close to Clara village died when the car he was driving hit a wall at Carn in Dunbell, Co Kilkenny, just a few hundred metres from his home at 2.30am.
Mr Nolan, who played at corner forward for the senior team and for his local Clara GAA club was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services which attended the scene a short time later.