Waste lorry overturns outside school

Gardaí say it was very fortunate that a lorry carrying building waste didn’t overturn half an hour later as it could have resulted in carnage.

The lorry overturned shortly after 8am yesterday in a busy North Cork town and just feet from the front of a primary school.

The lorry had just negotiated a bend on the southern approach to MacCurtain Street, Fermoy, when it tipped over onto the footpath.