I rang my better half just after lunch last week.
Brian Mahon dealt with the aftermath of numerous farm accidents during his time as Offaly County Coroner between 1997 and 2018. And what worries him most is that while the nature of the accidents may have changed, the number of fatalities has not declined.
Intense competition for cattle at the marts is continuing to lift beef prices.
On average, the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) in Dun Laoghaire treats four patients who have suffered life-altering injuries in farm accidents per year. The average age of these patients is 49 and they are primarily admitted with a spinal cord Injury or limb amputation.
'If you have to cut if off, take it off, I'm alive," is what Ben Ryall told surgeons before they operated on his arm following a farm accident.
When Ivan Curran started growing potatoes in the late 1970s, he had 80-100 pickers employed to harvest his crops by hand.
Looking back on the day a farm accident changed his life in 2005, Philip O'Connor says that cutting corners and rushing jobs was definitely a factor in what unfolded.
