An appeal fund has been started to help repatriate the body of a young man who was tragically killed on his first day in a new job.
Ercio Junior Peres (20) was fatally wounded in the workplace accident at an industrial unit in Navan, Co Meath, last Saturday morning. He died at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda later that day.
The Health and Safety Authority is to carry out an investigation into his death.
Friends and family of the young man have started an appeal to raise the €10,000 needed to repatriate his body to his native Brazil. His sister Thays said: “He only started his new job a few hours before he was killed. He was really looking forward to it.”
Thays, Ercio and their parents Tanya and Ercio Sr have been living in Ireland for the past 10 years.