{"id":420207,"date":"2026-04-27T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:08:12","slug":"breaking-were-heartbroken-young-limerick-man-dies-in-tragic-workplace-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420207\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: \u2018We\u2019re heartbroken\u2019: Young Limerick man dies in tragic workplace incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A YOUNG man has tragically passed away following a workplace incident in West <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> this Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the man, aged in his early 20s, was working on a mini-digger in a derelict house in Athea at the time. It is believed that a chimney or wall may have fallen on him during the course of the renovations.<\/p>\n<p>Following a query from Limerick Live, a spokesperson for the Health and Safety Authority (HSA)\u00a0 said they are aware of the fatal incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe HSA has launched an investigation into the circumstances. As such, no further information is available at this time,\u201d said the HSA spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/motoring-news\/2070869\/vigil-for-critical-faulkner-cousin-10-after-tragic-incident-for-limerick-family-on-third-sunday-in-a-row.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vigil for &#8216;critical&#8217; Faulkner cousin, 10, after tragic incident for Limerick family on third Sunday in a row<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local county councillor, Liam Galvin said \u201cthis was just a terrible tragedy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re heartbroken. I haven&#8217;t been talking to the family yet but I will be meeting them over the next few days. It&#8217;s just so, so, so sad. That\u2019s all I can say about it,\u201d said Cllr Galvin, who knows the deceased and his family well.<\/p>\n<p>The Abbeyfeale-based Fine Gael councillor said the young man was \u201cas nice a man as you could meet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo his mum and dad and to the extended families, I&#8217;d like to offer my sympathies and condolences. It&#8217;s just just a tragedy,\u201d said Cllr Galvin.<\/p>\n<p>May he rest in peace.\u00a0<\/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 YOUNG man has tragically passed away following a workplace incident in West Limerick this Monday. It is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5316,78494,2177,42,22876,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-420207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abbeyfeale","tag-athea","tag-county-limerick","tag-headlines","tag-hsa","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\/420207","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=420207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}