HSA DUE TO INVESTIGATE BARNADERG FARM DEATH

Date Published: 16-Mar-2008

The Health and Safety Authority are due to carry out an investigation into the death of a man on a North Galway farm yesterday evening.The pensioner who died in a slurry pit accident in Barnaderg, is 76 year old Billy Fahy, from Peak Barnaderg.Gardai, Tuam fire fighters and the emergency services rushed to the scene and he was taken by ambulance to University College Hospital, Galway for a post mortem shortly after 8 o’clock last night.The Killererin St. Patrick's Day Parade which was scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled as a mark of respect.