{"id":289288,"date":"2026-02-09T20:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289288\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:25:47","slug":"several-treated-for-injuries-following-fence-collapse-at-schools-gaa-final-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289288\/","title":{"rendered":"Several treated for injuries following fence collapse at schools GAA final \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A number of hurling supporters required hospital treatment after a fence collapsed at a schools final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaa\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaa\">GAA<\/a> match in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny\/\">Kilkenny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny city after St Kieran\u2019s boys secondary school played Kilkenny CBS in the Leinster senior schools hurling final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood the fence fell to the ground as the crowd pushed forward following the end of the match in which St Kieran\u2019s won the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Footage on social media shows several of the teams\u2019 players jumping towards the fence at the end of the match while a large group of supporters push forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Stewards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">garda\u00ed<\/a> and team players rushed to help those caught-up in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Those injured were brought to St Luke\u2019s General Hospital for treatment, some of whom suffered leg injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement, Kilkenny GAA said that after the Leinster senior hurling post primary schools final, an incident occurred during celebrations when players approached supporters in Ard\u00e1n de Gr\u00e1s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA section of pitchside fencing gave way, resulting in a number of supporters falling. Three supporters required medical attention, and a response plan was put in place by the County Board Medical Team to treat the individuals,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe safety and wellbeing of all those in attendance is taken seriously. The incident has been noted and the appropriate parties have been informed. At this time, out of respect to all parties involved no further comment will be made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of hurling supporters required hospital treatment after a fence collapsed at a schools final GAA match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45,4183,61,60,12969,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-289288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-gaa","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kilkenny","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289288","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=289288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}