Prayers were offered at masses around West Cork yesterday for toddler Ben O’Regan, who died after a gate hit him on the head as he was feeding hens.

A young girl who was killed in a freak farm accident suffered fatal blunt force trauma to her spine and would have died instantly.

A family were keeping a vigil at the bedside of their daughter, 11, at Cork University Hospital, after she was critically injured when a tractor front loader fell on top of her.