A builder, Mr Tom Padden (23), from Kilcock, Co Kildare, was killed in a freak accident outside Kilcoole, Co Wicklow, yesterday. The accident happened shortly after 10 a.m. on the KilcooleNewtownmountkennedy Road.
Mr Padden and two of his colleagues were carrying out sewage pipe-laying in the area when an eight-foot wall collapsed into the trench in which they were working. Mr Padden's fellow workers sustained some injuries but they are not believed to be serious.