{"id":254984,"date":"2026-01-20T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254984\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:53:08","slug":"farmer-90s-dies-in-workplace-accident-while-tending-cattle-on-land-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254984\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer, 90s, dies in workplace accident while tending cattle on land in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A FARMER, aged in his early 90s, has died in a workplace accident while tending to cattle on land in County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to a fatal workplace accident at a premises near Askeaton at approximately 6pm on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA male, aged in his 90s, was pronounced deceased at the scene. His body has since been removed to University Hospital Limerick for a post-mortem examination. The local coroner has been notified.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One local told Limerick Live that the elderly man was tending to cattle, that were being outwintered, at the time and it is believed he may have been attacked by a cow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was found deceased some time later and the emergency services were contacted,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1993823\/garda-negotiators-and-armed-officers-respond-to-emergency-situation-at-house-in-limerick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Garda negotiators and armed officers respond to emergency situation at house in Limerick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man, aged 91, is not from the locality but bought a farm of land at Morgans North in Askeaton.<\/p>\n<p>The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A FARMER, aged in his early 90s, has died in a workplace accident while tending to cattle on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14351,2177,27127,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-254984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-askeaton","9":"tag-county-limerick","10":"tag-farming","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}