Tributes are being paid to a talented sportsman who lost his life in a fatal road traffic collision on the R147 Kells to Virginia Road on Thursday.
The collision occurred at approximately 11:55pm on Wednesday evening and involved a single car. The body of a man was removed from the scene and taken to our Lady of Lourdes Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
He has been named locally as Joseph 'Joey' Stewart (24) from Kells in Co Meath.
