{"id":465331,"date":"2026-05-24T22:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:03:13","slug":"man-airlifted-to-uhk-after-suffering-a-fall-on-the-great-blasket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465331\/","title":{"rendered":"Man airlifted to UHK after suffering a fall on the Great Blasket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is recovering in University Hospital Kerry, having suffered a fall while visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-style\/people\/2026\/04\/26\/life-as-a-great-blasket-caretaker-i-knew-i-would-go-back-but-i-would-not-live-it-the-same-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Great Blasket island<\/a> earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The alarm was raised just after 12 mid-day, and the man was given medical treatment at the scene by First Responders.<\/p>\n<p>He was then airlifted from the island by rescue helicopter 115, assisted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/one-crewman-dies-and-other-critically-injured-in-accident-on-fishing-vessel-off-valentia-coast-467918\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dingle Coastguard.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understood the man&#8217;s injuries were not serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is recovering in University Hospital Kerry, having suffered a fall while visiting the Great Blasket island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[201264,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-465331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-airlifted-from-great-blasket-island","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465331","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=465331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}