Tributes paid to former rugby player killed in Tipperary crash

Former Garryowen player Mark McMullen was killed in a road collision on the Cahir-Clonmel road on Monday morning

Mark McMullen, a former Garryowen rugby player, who died in a road traffic accident in Tipperary on Monday.

Tributes have been paid to a former Garryowen rugby player who died in a road accident in Co Tipperary.

The victim of a fatal road traffic collision on the Waterford to Limerick Road has been named locally as Mark McMullen, 40. Gardaí and emergency services attended the scene of the collision between an articulated lorry and a van on the N24 Cahir-Clonmel road, between Barne Lodge and Condon's Cross on Monday morning, July 31, at about 10.40am.