An English-registered construction company has been fined €250,000 for breaching safety regulations on a building site where a Monaghan drainage pipe layer died six years ago.

An English-registered construction company has been convicted of breaching safety regulations on a Dublin building site where a drainage pipe layer died six years ago.

The hearing of evidence has ended in the trial of a construction company charged with breaching health and safety regulations arising out of the death of an employee after a trench collapsed at a building site

A forensic engineer has described a construction company charged with breaching safety regulations as having "a culture of safety far beyond the minimum required by legislation".

A health and safety inspector has revealed at the trial of a construction company charged with breaching safety regulations that three safety groups operated on a site where a drainage pipe layer died five years ago.