Tributes have been paid to a 25-year-old Irish man who died during a trip to see the Tour de France in Paris.<\/p>\n
Tom\u00e1s Walsh, a talented cyclist from the Cheekpoint area of Co Waterford, died in the French capital in the early hours of yesterday morning.<\/p>\n
He had travelled to France to watch the 16th stage of the Tour de France today.<\/p>\n
Comeragh Cycling Club, where he was a member for the past ten years, described Tom\u00e1s as the “life and soul” of the club.<\/p>\n
In a statement, a club spokesperson said: “Tom\u00e1s joined us as a 15-year-old ten years ago and represented us at both underage and senior level where he had great success.<\/p>\n
“He was the life and soul of the club, a fantastic young man.”<\/p>\n
The club said its members had been “truly shattered” by Tom\u00e1s’ death and extended their condolences to his family and friends.<\/p>\n
The Department of Foreign Affairs said it was aware of the case and providing consular assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tributes have been paid to a 25-year-old Irish man who died during a trip to see the Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-16576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}