Teenager dies on family farm

HEALTH and Safety Authority officials will visit the scene of a tragic family farm accident which claimed the life of a teenager on Saturday afternoon.

Shane Gleeson (15) from the Nire Valley, Co Waterford, was pronounced dead on arrival at Clonmel District Hospital.

His younger brother Conor found him lying beneath a tractor on the farm around 3.30pm. Efforts to resuscitate him failed.