Man dies in Co Kerry fall

A man has died after falling form a roof near Beaufort, Co Kerry.

A man has died after falling form a roof near Beaufort, Co Kerry.

He was named locally as Christy Coffey of Graune, a married man in his late 60s with four grown up children. He worked as a stonemason.

He was fixing a roof on his home yesterday afternoon when he fell.

A postmortem is being carried out at Kerry General Hospital.