Farmers are being warned of the importance of safety on farms - particularly with children being at home.
Two children have been killed in farm accidents since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, which includes a 14-year-old boy dying in an incident with a tractor in Clare yesterday morning.
Six people have died so far this year on farms, and the IFA says they will look at updating guidance.
President of the association is Tim Cullinan - he says safety needs to be the utmost of importance in a farmyard.
"Children are at home from school, they're home now for the last number of months, and I understand the pressures of farmyards.
"The first thing is - farmyards, they're not playgrounds.
"We have to be very conscious of if there's children playing in a yard, and tractors are so big now if they come into a yard the driver of that tractor may not be able to see young children.
"In every farmyard there needs to be a safe area for children so they're not in the main yard."
