'He was a gentleman, as quiet as a mouse' - Local community rocked by story of fatal Limerick crash

A child’s body lay concealed by a green blanket on a roadside.

Near to where three-year-old Alex James Velocci was found, his father Marco Velocci, 28, was discovered at the wheel of his ’05 black A4 Audi estate.

Moments earlier, the car had veered into the path of an oncoming articulated truck on a wide section of the N24 national primary road between Limerick and Tipperary.