George Ross loses bid over unsafe tractor death prosecution

This report is a localnews.ie summary based on public court reporting and records; sources are listed below.

George Ross lost a High Court bid to stop prosecution for an unsafe workplace offence, reported on 17 April 2019.

The Health and Safety Authority prosecution concerns a tractor death at Knocknacullota, Killavullen, County Cork, on 23 August 2013.

Ross had already been fined €700 after a 2014 road traffic conviction involving the same tractor.

The High Court found the proposed workplace and road traffic offences were different, so exceptional grounds to prohibit prosecution were absent.

This case may have concluded differently. The outcome has not yet been confirmed by a public source we could find.