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Saturday 24 October 2020
Gardaí and the HSA are investigating the circumstances of the incident.
Doyle Shipping Group is accused of breaking health and safety laws following the death of a father-of-two after a workplace accident at Dublin Port.
Research has also revealed workers between the age of 55 and 64 are almost twice as likely than younger workers to experience a workplace fatality.
The body of the deceased has since been removed to Dublin City Morgue.
Seven workers have died at ports and docks around Ireland in the last two years.
Joseph Harrington was fatally injured when he fell into an inadequately guarded stone crusher at the quarry.
Gardaí, the Health and Safety Authority and Dublin Airport authorities are investigating the circumstances of the incident.
The local community is said to be “numbed” by the incident.
Gardaí and the HSA are investigating the incident.
Gardaí are investigating what happened.
The accident happened at a potato farm near Stamullen.
Another employee had died using the same machine several years before.
Health and safety inspectors are investigating the incident.
Robert Ceremuga died after the incident at VP Foods in Finglas, Dublin 11.
Aidan Cummins died near his Carrig-on-Bannow home on Saturday.
The airline was fined €250,000 for breaching health and safety laws.
Gardaí and the HSA have begun investigations.
One took place in Monaghan, the other in Wexford.
The Health and Safety Authority and gardaí are investigating the circumstances of the accident.
The incident occurred around 3.50pm this afternoon.
The accident happened yesterday morning in Ballylongford.
The man was working at the time.
The man passed away after sustaining crush injuries at a Naas factory.
The woman was taken to Sligo University Hospital yesterday.
Joseph McDermott and Gerard Bradley died yesterday when a concrete slab fell on them.
Waterford man Donal Scanlon (21) was on life support before he died.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene.
It is believed the man was overcome by fumes.
An investigation into the incident will be carried out.
Both incidents took place early this morning, one in Wexford and one in Roscommon.
The boy’s father is said to be fighting for his life in a Belfast hospital.
The workplace accident happened this afternoon at a plant in the Waterford Industrial Estate.
Everyone’s talking about Alan Shatter, tragic workplace accidents and angry Ryanair customers.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
The 21-year-old was tragically killed on the premises where he worked yesterday.
The incident happened off Baggot Street on Rogers Lane at around 10.30am.
The incident happened at the SmartPly plant, a subsidiary of Coillte, at around 3pm yesterday.
The accident happened this afternoon on Hibernian Road near Anglesea Street in Cork city.
The incident occurred at Lough Ree Power Station overnight.
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
You can catch up on the main points here.
Did you stay up to watch the debate, or catch highlights this morning?
If you did, we want to know: Who won last night’s US election debate?
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