A GAA club in Offaly has been left numbed by the death of one of its members in a work accident.

Jim Duffy, who was a member of the Walsh Island GAA committee, died on Wednesday after falling from a wall in Portarlington. In his fifties, he is survived by his wife Catherine and sons Martin, Kieran and Joseph. He will be laid to rest in Walsh Island tomorrow after Requiem Mass in the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

"Jim was a valued committee member and played a huge role in the development of the GAA grounds in the last number of years. He always had a smile and a kind word for everyone," a post of Walsh Island's Facebook page read.

Walsh Island chairman Martin Carty described the deceased as '"irreplaceable" to the community when speaking on Midlands 103.

"His sense of community, everything was built around the community and his family. He'd done so much great work around the village, he was our caretaker up at the GAA fields; he had the place looking absolutely fantastic."

 

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