Tributes for pour in for handball legend Michael ‘Ducksie’ Walsh

Tributes have poured in for Michael ‘Ducksie’ Walsh following the sudden passing of handball’s greatest icon yesterday.

The Kilkenny legend took ill on the way home from a tournament in Kingscourt, Cavan last Saturday and his condition deteriorated on Tuesday before he died, surrounded by his family, at 1.40pm yesterday in Beaumont Hospital.

GAA Handball National Manager John Kelly summed up the mood when he stated Walsh was “one in a million, a tremendous competitor, a sportsman par excellence and an iconic figure whose loss has left the entire handball community numb with grief.”