Building firm fined in fatal staircase collapse

A leading construction company has been fined €50,000 for negligence which led to a father of two being killed when a concrete staircase collapsed on him at a building site.

Thomas O’Neill, a 31-year-old construction worker from Lucan, died at the scene of the accident from crush injuries when three flights of stairs, weighing two tonnes each, collapsed due to a design flaw in the "anchors" or bolts holding the staircase to the walls of the building.