A farmer died in an incident on a farm in Templepatrick, Co Antrim, on Thursday of last week.

A spokesperson for the PSNI told the Irish Farmers Journal that “police attended the scene of the sudden death of a man at a property in the Ballysculty Road area of Antrim on Thursday 21 May.

“The death is not being treated as suspicious at this time, and the Health and Safety Executive has been informed.”

It is understood the man was aged in his 40s.

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