Tributes are being paid to a teenage girl, killed in a fall from a horse, in Kerry.
Gardaí and emergency services attended the tragic accident at Rockfield, just outside Killarney, on the N22 Tralee road.
It happened at roughly five o'clock yesterday evening (Thursday, 26th June) as the 17-year old was horse riding at her home.
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She was pronounced dead at the scene, and her body has been removed to hospital for a postmortem examination.
The Coroner for Kerry has been notified and the Health and Safety Authority has launched an investigation.
Fr Kieran O'Brien from Killarney attended the scene:
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