DYLAN Boggan, the 23-year-old who died this week after being kicked by a racehorse, was laid to rest yesterday [Friday] in Mayglass, Co Wexford.

An experienced horseman. he was working in a local racing yard and is understood to have been putting a horse into a mechanical walker on Tuesday afternoon when it lashed out at him. Emergency services were called, including a Coast Guard rescue helicopter, but the young man could not be saved.

Local councillor and ambulance officer Ger McCarthy said: “This really is tragedy of unspeakable proportions to lose a man so young. My thoughts go out to his family. There was a large multi-agency response and everybody involved, from the two doctors in Fethard-on-Sea to the advanced paramedics and the helicopter crew, fought valiantly to save his life. Sadly there was no more we could do.”

Dylan is survived by his parents David and Sabrina, and siblings Aaron, Jordon and Ava.