Boy dies in quad bike crash on day of first confession

An eight-year-old schoolboy had made his first confession only hours before sustaining fatal injuries in a quad bike accident.

Co Clare boy Ultan Hayes died at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin, yesterday of injuries he suffered on Thursday. He had been a passenger on the quad bike which crashed into a wall.

The boy’s father, Brian Hayes, only bought the quad bike recently days. They were only a short distance from the family home on a local road at Whitegate in east Clare at 9.10pm on Thursday when the accident occurred.