Man, 23, fatally injured as truck overturns

A 23-year-old man has died after the articulated truck he was driving overturned in West Cork yesterday.

The deceased, named locally as Paudie Kelly, from Newcestown, was fatally injured when the vehicle left the road.

He was pronounced dead at the scene and taken to Cork University Hospital where a post mortem is due to take place. Mr Kelly, a past pupil of St Brogan’s College in Bandon, worked as a machinery operator at Pat Kelly Haulage.