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I was walking with a loved one on the eastern edge of Curragh beach in Ardmore, County Waterford, a place of warm refuge since I was a child.

We paused beside a river that flows into Ardmore Bay.

A call was later made from Ardmore Avenue in Dundonald, telling emergency services an injured person had been brought there.

He was on bail at the time of the collision and told police at the house in Ardmore Avenue that he was "breaching his bail to try to help" but was not the driver.

Where Kobe first achieved national prominence as a prep superstar at Lower Merion High School in the suburb of Ardmore before skipping college to go pro.