Calls to close off ‘short cut’ where father and son died

Local representatives have called for a meeting between Dublin City Council and Irish Rail to finally close off a ‘short cut’ at which a father and son died at the weekend.

A postmortem was conducted yesterday on the bodies of Sean ‘Curley’ Sweeney, 36, and his three-year-old son Tyler Joyce, who died in what gardaí are calling a tragic accident in the Ashtown area of the capital.

Their bodies were discovered by a passerby near the railway line at Ashington Green on Sunday afternoon at around 3pm. Gardaí believe they may have first fallen into the ditch, possibly as early as the previous evening.