Man dies in quarry accident

A man was killed in an accident involving a lorry at a quarry yard in Co Monaghan yesterday

A man was killed in an accident involving a lorry at a quarry yard in Co Monaghan yesterday. Gardai named him as Mr Eugene Leonard (27), a single man from Tullyharnet, near Castleblayney.

An eight-year-old boy, who was struck by a car after getting off a school bus on Wednesday evening, has died at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. He was Padraic Kenny, of Greenwood Park, Edenderry, Co Offaly.

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