Mobile phone saved farmer’s life

A farmer has told how he owes his life to his mobile phone after his leg and ear were severed in a horrific accident.

Paddy Kennedy said he made a few failed attempts to use his blood-soaked phone before eventually getting through to his neighbour and then to his local doctor to get an ambulance to his yard after the bucket of a farm loader landed on him.

Tonight’s episode of Ear to the Ground on RTÉ One reveals that farming is Ireland’s deadliest occupation, with 200 people killed on a farm over the last decade and many more injured.