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Worker dies after fall in Dublin airport
A 58-year-old man died after falling while working on an aircraft at the SR Technics aircraft maintenance facility at Dublin airport.
The incident happened while the man, a maintenance worker, was de-icing an aircraft at around 4am yesterday morning. The victim, who has not been named, was treated by airport ambulance personnel at the scene, but was dead on admission to Beaumont Hospital.
Call for special NI taskforce
Sinn Féin and the SDLP have supported calls from the family of a murder victim for a special police "taskforce" to combat anti-social behaviour in areas of west Belfast. Frank McGreevy, a former republican prisoner, died on Tuesday after being beaten in his flat at Ross Street on Saturday.
At a vigil on Tuesday evening, his sister, Elizabeth McCartan called for the community to organise itself against what she called "an evil in our society."
The SDLP's Alex Attwood MLA said the party would meet police to discuss the investigation. "We agree with the calls [for]a west Belfast crime taskforce. The level of risk is so great that the police leadership needs to get involved."
Way of Cross march in Dublin
The annual Way of the Cross procession in Dublin's Phoenix Park begins at 12.30pm next Friday instead of the usual 3pm on Good Friday. Led by the Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin, it is organised by the lay Communion and Liberation movement. It begins at the Wellington monument, as in other years, continuing to the papal cross.
Change to level crossings urged
The family of a man killed at a railway level crossing in Co Mayo last month met Iarnród Éireann personnel yesterday as part of their call to have such crossings automated, writes Tim O'Brien. Retired farmer PJ McGowan was killed on February 28th when his vehicle collided with a train as he drove across a user-operated level crossing in Straid, Co Mayo.