BARNADERG MAN DIES IN FARM ACCIDENT
Date Published: 16-Mar-2008
The community in Barnaderg and Killererin is in shock following the tragic death of a farmer in a freak farm accident last evening.It is understood that the elderly man, who was in his mid 70s, died in a slurry pit accident. The accident happened on a farm in the Peak area of Barnaderg shortly after tea time last evening.Gardai, Tuam fire fighters and the emergency services rushed to the scene and the man was taken by ambulance to University College Hospital, Galway for a post mortem shortly after 8 o’clock last night.The man, who is a widower, with a grown up family, was pronounced dead at the scene of the tragic farm accident.