Tributes paid to car crash victim
THE young man who died in a horror crash just outside Abbeyfeale in the early hours of Tuesday morning was "an absolute gentleman, intelligent, courteous and a friend to everyone", according to his headmaster, Tommy Barrett of Abbeyfeale Vocational School.
Martin James Casey, 18, of Lower Coolegrane, Brosna, sat his Leaving Cert at Abbeyfeale VS this year and was about to enrol as an engineering student at Limerick IT in the coming weeks.
Mr Casey was alone in his car when it struck a roadside pillar beside Fr Casey's GAA grounds just across the bridge from Abbeyfeale town on the Listowel road. It is understood that Mr Casey had been with friends earlier in the night. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Tralee General Hospital.
Tommy Barrett said that Martin Casey's death came as a terrible shock to the whole community, but especially to the students and staff in the school with whom he had been particularly popular.
On behalf of the school, he extended his sympathy to Martin's parents, Timothy and Mary, and to his brothers, Timothy, Brian and Christopher, grandmothers and extended family.
Cllr Francis Foley, expressing his sympathies, said that the parish of Brosna is a very closely knit community and that the loss of so young a life will be very deeply felt by all.
He said that Martin Casey had had many friends in Abbeyfeale, where he had also worked weekends in a food outlet for the past year.
Removal from the family home is on Thursday for midday Requiem Mass at St Carthage's Church, Brosna, with burial afterwards to the new cemetery, Brosna.
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