Two die in Cork and Wicklow while working to repair storm damage

Two farmers have died in separate incidents as they worked to repair roofs damaged in recent storms.

A man in his early 50s died yesterday when he fell from a teleporter on a farm in Kilgarriffe near Clonakilty in West Cork.

The incident took place at around 1pm as he was working on repairing the roof of a cow shed damaged in the recent bad weather.