Waterford City and County Council is to carry out a technical examination of all balconies at an apartment block after two young children fell from a second-storey balcony.<\/p>\n
The brother and sister were injured in the incident, which occurred in Block C of Mount Suir Manor in Waterford city yesterday.<\/p>\n
A three-year-old boy fell more than 6m after the glass pane at the side of the balcony fell off.<\/p>\n
It appears his seven-year-old sister tried to prevent him falling, but she too fell out and down onto the grass below.<\/p>\n
The children were in the apartment with other family members at the time.<\/p>\n
The glass panel also landed on the grass, leaving an indentation in the ground with another corner sticking up. The boy landed only a few centimetres away.<\/p>\n
Both children were taken to University Hospital Waterford. The girl was discharged yesterday afternoon but her brother was kept in for monitoring due to the nature of his head injuries.<\/p>\n
The apartment block has been under the remit of Waterford City and County Council since 2019.<\/p>\n
Residents in the apartment complex have been highlighting issues with their balconies and properties for a number of years.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the local authority said that council personnel and a structural engineer have inspected the site in Mount Suir.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said: “Waterford City and County Council will carry out a technical inspection of all Block C balconies commencing Monday, March 23rd and all tenants have been informed accordingly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford City and County Council is to carry out a technical examination of all balconies at an apartment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-358049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358049","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=358049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}