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

The mother of a girl killed in a tragic farm accident has described her beloved daughter as a "bright, intelligent, popular girl".

Wiping away tears, Linda Dinsberga spoke movingly about 8-year-old Paula, who was killed in a farm accident on a rented farm at Rusheen, Newtownshandrum, outside Charleville, Co Cork, on Sunday.