Elderly man dies in Offaly farm accident involving tractor earlier this morning

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An elderly man has died in a farm accident in Offaly earlier this morning.

The incident occurred at Fivevalley near Birr earlier on today when a man in his 70s died in an accident involving a tractor, with the Health and Safety Authority confirming the death earlier this afternoon.

Another man also passed away at a separate incident in Wexford this morning. The man, who was in his 20s, died when the quad bike he was driving overturned while he was out working on his father's farm in Moneyribbin.

The two accidents brings the number of deaths on Irish farms to four this year, with other men passing away following accidents in Roscommon and Wexford in recent times.

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