A Kerry County Council road worker who died on Monday after being crushed by an earth-moving machine has been named by gardaí as 50-year-old Tim Morley of Coomnakilla, Blackwater.
Mr Morley had been working on a road-widening scheme at Eirk on the main Ring of Kerry tourist route outside Killarney at 8.30am when the incident happened.
The married father of two is understood to have been caught and crushed under the wheels of the machine.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was later removed to Kerry General Hospital.
