Two-way investigation into tragic death of phone-line repairman

A joint investigation by the Gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority is underway after an eircom subcontractor died tragically yesterday while at work in West Cork.

Two-way investigation into tragic death of phone-line repairman

A joint investigation by the Gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority is underway after an eircom subcontractor died tragically yesterday while at work in West Cork.

Sixty-five-year-old Michael O'Riordan, of Riverdale, Skibbereen had been re-errecting a telephone pole which had fallen in last week's storms. He was married with three children.

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