Mayor leads tributes to council worker killed by telegraph pole

As a mark of respect to an employee who was killed in a work accident, members of Cork County Council adjourned their meeting in County Hall yesterday after offering their sympathies to the deceased’s family.

Cllr Barbara Murray, the county mayor, led tributes to Michael O’Donovan who died last Friday when a tree fell onto overhead wires and dragged down a telegraph pole which struck the father of three.

The county council, the Health and Safety Authority, and the gardaí are carrying out separate investigations into his death.