A 91-YEAR-OLD man has died after he was attacked by a cow on his Co. Kilkenny farm.
The accident took place at a farm near Sevensisters, Johnstown, shortly after 9.10pm last night.
It’s understood that the farmer, who is well-known locally, was tending to a newborn calf when a cow attacked him.
Emergency services were called to the farm but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority have launched separate investigations into the tragedy.
The pensioner's death marks the fourth farming fatality in Ireland so far this year, according to AgriLand.
On January 21, a teenager lost his life after falling from a tractor on a farm near Boulaglass, Newtown, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
Then on February 1, a man died in an accident while loading bales at a farm in Clogheen – also in Co. Tipperary.
Later that week, a man in aged his 70s was killed after being hit by a teleporter on a potato farm in Co. Meath.
In total last year, farmers made up 24 of Ireland's 47 workplace-related deaths – with 14 being aged 65 or older.
