{"id":473752,"date":"2026-05-29T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473752\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:09:08","slug":"coronas-limerick-concert-called-off-after-guitarist-falls-ill-on-stage-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473752\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronas\u2019 Limerick concert called off after guitarist falls ill on stage \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A medical emergency on the stage at a Coronas concert in Limerick on Friday night led to the event being cancelled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Dublin band\u2019s concert at King John\u2019s Castle in Limerick City which was attended by thousands of people had only just started before it was abruptly halted after guitarist Lar Kaye fell ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was treated by medics and around an hour after the show was stopped the band\u2019s lead singer Danny O\u2019Reilly retuned to the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said that while wanted to finish the show \u201cit just doesn\u2019t feel right\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said they wanted the guitarist to be with them \u201cwhen we come back\u201d and suggested a return day in the middle of July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHopefully that suits you guys to come back. We are so sorry about this,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Coronas, who were playing in front of capacity crowd, released their first album in 2007 and quickly became one of the most popular bands in Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They have had critical and commercial success with all seven of their studio albums, first as a four-piece and more recently as a three-piece. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A medical emergency on the stage at a Coronas concert in Limerick on Friday night led to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,1396,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-473752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-limerick","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\/473752","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=473752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}