{"id":448982,"date":"2026-05-14T19:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448982\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:26:10","slug":"death-of-cork-jockey-michael-osullivan-24-after-racing-fall-ruled-accidental-at-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448982\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Cork jockey Michael O\u2019Sullivan (24) after racing fall ruled \u2018accidental\u2019 at inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The 24-year-old died following a fall at Thurles Racecourse in February 2025\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael O\u2019Sullivan (John Walton\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7d949824-4beb-4222-8c33-dd35df080011.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael O\u2019Sullivan (John Walton\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A coroner has delivered a verdict of \u201caccidental death\u201d in relation to the passing of a young North Cork jockey, described as an \u201cup and coming star\u201d of the sport, who died following a fall at Thurles Racecourse on February 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Michael O\u2019Sullivan from Currabower, Lombardstown, died at Cork University Hospital ten days after the fall from \u201cWee Charlie\u201d during the meeting at the Tipperary racecourse, after what his family had described as a \u201cTrojan battle\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 24-year-old died following a fall at Thurles Racecourse in February 2025 Michael O\u2019Sullivan (John Walton\/PA) A coroner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[151390,42,1718,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-448982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cheltenham-festival","tag-headlines","tag-kevin-galvin","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\/448982","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=448982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}