A tragic Irishman will be laid to rest on Thursday following his death in a farming accident last week.
Patrick Broderick, from Abbeyfeale in Co Limerick, died when a wall he was working on at his home collapsed.
Emergency services attended the scene but Mr Broderick, who was in his 40s, was pronounced dead a short time later.
A technical examination of the scene was carried out and the Health and Safety Authority were informed.
Tributes have poured in for the farmer, with local Fine Gael councillor Liam Galvin describing him as a "hard-working" man.
He told the Limerick Leader: "He was a man who worked hard on his family farm, and looked after his mother Kathleen.
"He was very obliging. He helped people out, and always did what he could.
"You’d always see him driving his New Holland tractor in the road. There was always a piece of machinery on the back of it. That was his life."
A death notice posted on RIP.ie reads: "Patrick, son of the late Patrick and brother of the late Hannah Marie, very sadly missed by his loving mother Kathleen, brothers Dan, David and Denis, sisters Nora Mary Barrett (Castlemahon) and Kathleen, nieces, nephew, aunts, brother-in-law Tom, sister-in-law Aileen, Denis’s partner Joanne, cousins, neighbours and a large circle of friends."
A wake for Mr Broderick will be held at Harnett's Funeral Home in Abbeyfeale on Wednesday evening from 5pm followed by removal at 8pm to Church of the Assumption Abbeyfeale
A Requiem Mass will take place on Thursday at 11am with funeral afterwards to Reilig Íde Naofa Abbeyfeale.
Family flowers only please. Donations if desired, may be made to the Irish Community Rapid Response Air Ambulance Service.
