Fund aims to pay cost of bringing boy’s body home from Australia

A fundraising appeal has been launched to help with the repatriation costs of the remains of a young Irish boy who died in Australia last week.

Eleven-year-old Adam Kielty’s parents are due to fly in to Dublin Airport this evening with the remains of their son who died less than 18 months after they emigrated.

The former resident of Castlemartin in Bettystown, Co Meath, developed pneumonia and sepsis and died in hospital in Brisbane on February 22 after a two-week battle.