A man dismantling a ceiling in a warehouse died after he sustained injuries when the platform he was working on fell to the floor.

The HSE has been accused of "dragging its feet" in implementing safety measures at a psychiatric unit where 44 incidents of alleged violence on staff took place in a three-month period.

A POLISH worker was killed when a five-tonne section of a crane crashed down on top of him as he was dismantling it, a health and safety inspector stated in court yesterday.

A Cork businessman was fined €25,000 today for health and safety breaches after one of his employees was killed when a petrol tanker exploded.

Keith Dalgleish, who rode Yavana’s Pace into third place in the Grade One Canadian International at Woodbine, Toronto, last night jetted back to his native Scotland and took the riding honours with a 19-1 treble at Hamilton today.