Man, 24, dies as car hits wall near home in Kerry

A 24-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene when his car hit a wall on the main Tralee to Listowel road near the village of Kilflynn shortly before 10pm on Saturday night.

The dead man has been named locally as Maurice O’Donoghue, of Mountcoal, a short distance from where the fatal accident took place.

The accident occurred on the brow of a slight hill on a wide section of the N69, midway between Tralee and Listowel.