An award-winning student from Cork has died in what is understood to have been a tragic accident while on holiday in Greece.<\/p>\n
Alex McKee, 17, was found dead on Sunday at his accommodation on the Aegean island of Kimolos, it is understood.<\/p>\n
An autopsy is due to take place today and is expected to establish the teenager’s cause of death.<\/p>\n
However, local reports have said that the young student, who has been described as \u201cextremely bright and talented\u201d, suffered a tragic accident.<\/p>\n
Mr McKee won the prestigious Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) Award at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition earlier this year, along with two classmates.<\/p>\n
He was in Greece visiting relatives with his mother and sister. His mother is originally from Greece and his father is Irish.<\/p>\n
Mr McKee was due to begin his Leaving Certificate year at Terence MacSwiney Community College in Knocknaheeny in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Local Fianna F\u00e1il councillor Tony Fitzgerald said, when contacted by The Echo, that the student’s death had hit the local community hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very sad,” Mr Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was such a talented young lad. With his recent achievement at the Young Scientist exhibition, himself and his colleagues were so excited and very proud of what they achieved. He put in so much work, there was such excitement.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy deepest condolences to his family, friends and his fellow students and teachers at the Terence MacSwiney Community College. It is heartbreaking for them all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An award-winning student from Cork has died in what is understood to have been a tragic accident while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-592221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}