A seafarer has died in an accident on an ICG ropax in Ireland.

Police were cited by the Irish Times as saying the incident happened during loading of the 34,000-gt Isle of Inishmore (built 1997) at Rosslare on Thursday.

The dead crew member was in his 20s.

ICG's Irish Ferries said it had been informed “by the company that provides its crew services” that “a very serious incident involving one of their crew members took place...