{"id":45073,"date":"2025-09-26T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45073\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:54:10","slug":"student-fell-to-her-death-at-cliffs-of-moher-while-walking-on-slippery-path-inquest-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45073\/","title":{"rendered":"Student fell to her death at Cliffs of Moher while walking on \u2018slippery\u2019 path, inquest hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cliffs of Moher.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/04d7f130-bcd4-496a-a82e-08b693496eaa.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)\">Cliffs of Moher.<\/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 20-year-old University of Edinburgh student slipped and fell to her death while walking at the side of a &#8220;huge puddle\u201d on a muddy part of a trail beside the cliff edge at the Cliffs of Moher in May 2024, an inquest has heard.<\/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)\">At the Clare Coroner\u2019s Court in Kilrush on Friday, three college friends of the late Roxan Bastaens \u2013 a Belgian national \u2013 gave eye-witness testimony of Ms Bastaens&#8217;s final moments before she fell to her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cliffs of Moher. A 20-year-old University of Edinburgh student slipped and fell to her death while walking at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-45073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45073","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=45073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}