Young girl died instantly in farm accident in Cork

A young girl who was killed in a freak farm accident suffered fatal blunt force trauma to her spine and would have died instantly.

The harrowing details emerged yesterday as an inquest into the death on September 28 last of Paula Dinsberga, aged eight, on a farm in Newtownshandrum, outside Charleville in Co Cork, was opened in Mallow.

Details of identification and cause of death were heard but coroner for North Cork, Dr Michael Kennedy, adjourned proceedings pending the completion of a Health and Safety Authority probe.