Rugby star memorial
A memorial service has taken place in Belfast for Ulster Rugby player Nevin Spence and his father and brother who died after falling into a slurry tank at their farm at Hillsborough in Northern Ireland.
Sister's brave efforts to rescue family from slurry tank
It has emerged that the sister of Ulster rugby star Nevin Spence who died alongside his father and brother in a farming tragedy on Saturday, bravely attempted to rescue her family.
Emma Spence twice climbed into a manhole and then down into a slurry tank on the family farm near Hillsborough, Co Down, where her father Noel, 68, and brothers, Graham, 30, and Nevin, 22, all died trying to save each other.
Miss Spence, managed to pull her father on to the ladder where she was assisted by neighbours. They immediately tried to resuscitate Noel.
She then went back a second time and found Graham in the tank lying in two to three feet of slurry. But she was then overcome by the odourless fumes and had to be pulled free by the frantic neighbours who ran to the tank after hearing the calls for help.
The funerals of the three men will be held in Ballynahinch, Co Down, later today.
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