A South Kilkenny man has been killed following a road crash in Australia.
Seamus Walsh died after his truck hit another in New South Wales last night.
The 38 year old is originally from Ballyhale in Co. Kilkenny, but had been living in Australia for a number of years.
His grandfather, Jimmy Walsh, captained the Senior Hurling team to two All-Ireland hurling medals in 1932 and 1939.
Local Fianna Fáil TD Bobby Alyward says the local community is in shock, and has expressed his sympathy with Mr Walsh's family:
"They have a big ordeal on their hands at the moment now, for a young man to be taken like that. Very sad news for the whole area here in South Kilkenny and its a shock to everyone.
All we can say is our sympathies are with the family and our prayers and hopefully they can get through this."
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