Community 'devastated' as teen killed in tractor crash named locally

Garda forensic collision investigators carried out an examination of the scene.

Tributes have been paid to the 'farming mad' teenager who died following a crash in Offaly on Thursday night after the tractor he was driving left the road and entered a deep drain at Black Castle Bog in Clonmore near Rhode.

He has been named locally as 17-year-old Shane Hickey, a native of Clonmore in Rhode. His body was taken to Tullamore Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.