{"id":502684,"date":"2026-06-16T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502684\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:18:09","slug":"firepit-blaze-in-killarney-estate-leaves-six-injured-including-children-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502684\/","title":{"rendered":"Firepit blaze in Killarney estate leaves six injured, including children \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A boy and his mother remain seriously injured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> hospital following a fire in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kerry\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kerry\/\">Kerry<\/a> at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Six people, including a number of children, were injured in the incident at a firepit at the Loreto Convent housing estate in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/killarney\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/killarney\/\">Killarney<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood members of the neighbourhood had gathered at a communal fireplace when the fire surged suddenly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Liquid fuel is believed to have been added to the fire and a number of people who were seated nearby were hurt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Foul play is not suspected by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The garda\u00ed confirmed officers and emergency services had attended the scene at about 10.30pm last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cSix people, men, women and children, were conveyed to hospital for the treatment of injuries sustained during the incident,\u201d garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cllr John O\u2019Donoghue of the Kerry Independent Alliance described the incident as a \u201cterrible tragedy\u201d that has left a child and his mother in \u201cserious condition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">O\u2019Donoghue said there had been \u201cno suggestions of wrongdoing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said investigations into the incident are ongoing and a technical examination of the scene has been conducted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/06\/16\/man-arrested-after-woman-80s-found-dead-in-co-waterford\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woman (80s) found dead in Co Waterford is named as man arrestedOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boy and his mother remain seriously injured in a Dublin hospital following a fire in Co Kerry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,61,60,7727,41961,43],"class_list":["post-502684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kerry","tag-killarney","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502684","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=502684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}