Childhood friends die abroad just two months apart

Two friends and close neighbours from a small Cork village have been killed in separate accidents abroad in the space of just two months.

Liam O’Mahony, a 27 year-old plumber from Innishannon, died in a workplace accident in Sweden on Wednesday. He had sustained severe injuries in a fall from a ladder on to a concrete slab as he worked on one of Stockholm’s largest infrastructural projects.

Just last April Mr O’Mahony’s friend and close neighbour, Colin Callanan, tragically drowned off Koh Tao, Thailand. Mr Callanan had been living in Perth for six years where he worked with AMS Services. He was on business in Thailand before the accident.