Tributes are being paid to a local priest who died suddenly yesterday.
Fr John Cummins, parish priest in Abbeyleix died in whats being described as a ‘freak accident’ involving a car outside his parochial house.
Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Denis Nulty has led the tributes saying his death is a tremendous loss to all in the diocese.
Fr Cummins had been in the Carlow Cathedral parish previously and also worked at IT Carlow.