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“Her love for horses and fear of nothing brought that eight year old girl into a field she had been warned out of by my parents hundreds of times ... the mark of the yearling’s hoof can still be seen on the side of her head” - Padraig Foley

“With a habit of pointing at everything and an unhealthy curiosity for moving parts, my fingers and I became separated when they came into contact with the fan belt of our Massey Ferguson” - Eoin Lowry

“I carried out the farm safety checklist on my farm when it came out first and highlighted things that had to be fixed. However, in many cases they remained just that – a danger highlighted, put on the list of things to do” – Peter Young

“As I was sitting on one of the timber planks 20ft up in the air, my friend levered off the steel upright and before I knew what was happening I was hurtling head first to the ground”- Jack Kennedy

“The speed it all happened at was frightening. Despite the worn tread, I was pulled under the tractor so one ankle was driven over by the back tyre of the far wheel” - Pat O’Toole

“We are living in a farming society where many hundreds of the Irish farming wounded get up and get out each day to face their farm tasks. They carry on. They are relieved that they have survived a traumatic farm accident experience, but their scars are evident and often obvious” – Michael Moroney

“There’s an expression that some people are fond of: ‘I thrive under pressure.’ Sorry to break it to you, but you don’t” - Maura Fay

“Perceived risk is diminished by urgency. It is when we are under pressure to avail of the half chance, that accidents are most likely” - Andy Doyle

“I was a very young child standing in the cab of one tractor when a stone from the double chop silage harvester shattered the windscreen” - Pat O’Keeffe

“As he fell, Dad had to throw the angle grinder away to prevent the spinning disc cutting him. He managed this just before he hit the floor, dislocating his shoulder and bruising his ribs” - Paidi Kelly

“He had been missing for a couple of days before a hurley he used to carry with him was found beside the slurry tank. The outpouring of grief from the community was something I never have witnessed before and have not since” - Patrick Donohoe