President leads tributes to teen player who collapsed and died playing football match

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to a young boy who collapsed and died while playing football on Tuesday night.

Shelbourne player, Izzy Dezu, collapsed during the second-half of a Dublin and District Schoolboys’ League U16 Premier Division match at the AUL Complex on Dublin’s northside.

The 16-year-old was treated by paramedics before being rushed to the nearby Beaumont Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.