According to a witness, who works in Flack Brothers Ltd garage on Glaslough Street, the slurry tank overturned at around 11.30am.

The worker, who was on the phone at the time, saw the tractor and tanker come around the street corner. “This was followed by a bang,” he told us.

The worker finished his phone call and went to the window to see the tanker, which he estimated to be a 2,200-gallon tanker, on its side.

“Most of the road was covered with slurry,” he said. He said for his colleagues, who are not from farms, the smell was pretty awful.

“I’m from a farm so it didn’t affect me so much,” he said.

Monaghan County Council was accompanied by the fire brigade and the gardaí in first clearing away the tanker and then clearing away the slurry. The road was closed while clearing operations were in place, but, according to the witness, the road was back open by 2pm.

“To their credit, the road was cleared up pretty quickly and traffic was back to normal within a few hours,” our eyewitness said.

Gardaí have confirmed that nobody was injured in the incident.

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