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Frank Daly passed away in yesterday's bus crash in Dublin city. The Journal The Journal

THE MAN WHO died in a bus crash on Dublin’s North Earl Street yesterday has been named locally as Frank Daly. 

It’s understood that Frank, who was aged in his 80s, was local to East Wall in the north inner city.

Sinn Fein councillor Janice Boylan told The Journal that Frank was well known in the local area, and that he regularly chatted to neighbours in his garden.

She said that he was “fit and healthy” at 86 years of age, and that he walked to Ann’s Bakery in town for his dinner every day.

“Given the time of day, we think he’d have been on his way there or on his way home when this happened, it’s so sad,” she said.

Boylan added that Frank was known for his walking, and that there was a well known story about him walking “all the way to Dun Laoghaire and back for an ice cream once in the summer”.

She said he lived alone and had a brother.

“This is a truly devastating loss to the community”, Boylan added. 

A card for Frank in Ann's Bakery today. The Journal The Journal

A bouquet of flowers and a card were placed on Frank’s usual table in Ann’s Bakery today, it included a photo of Frank celebrating his birthday in the café. 

Rumen, a staff member of ten years, told The Journal that Frank was “like a grandfather” to him.

“I don’t have my grandfather here, so he was that for me. I didn’t get to see him in the last week because he’d had some work done on his teeth. I really feel I can’t speak too much right now, it’s too emotional for me. But we are all feeling for his family right now. He was a great man,” he said.

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Flowers today at the scene of the crash on North Earl Street. Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

Three other people who were injured in the crash were taken to hospital to be treated for their injuries. 

A second male pedestrian in his 20s is being treated for serious but non-life threatening injuries. 

The driver of the bus, a woman in her 50s, and a female pedestrian in her 30s are being treated in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

Bus Éireann said the bus was not in service at the time of the crash and its CEO Jean O’Sullivan said she is “profoundly saddened by this tragic incident”. 

President Catherine Connolly expressed her “deepest condolences” to the man who was killed and thanked the emergency services for their “swift attendance”.

She also sent her “best wishes to those injured and wish them a speedy recovery, as well as to all those impacted” yesterday in the wake of the tragedy.