{"id":557668,"date":"2026-07-19T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557668\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:53:08","slug":"man-40s-dies-at-festival-in-co-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557668\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 40s, dies at festival in Co Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 40s has died at the Love is a Stranger mini-music festival at Ballyvolane House in Castlelyons, Co Cork.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the alarm was raised when the man was found unresponsive in a tent this morning.<\/p>\n<p>CPR was carried out but he was subsequently pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the team at the festival said that they were &#8220;absolutely devastated&#8221; to learn of the death of an attendee at Love is a Stranger.<\/p>\n<p>The team said: &#8220;Our thoughts are with the individual&#8217;s family, friends, and loved ones at this extremely difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are assisting An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and the emergency services in every way possible, and will not comment further while their inquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of respect for those affected, today&#8217;s closing concert has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to thank the emergency services, our crew, volunteers and attendees and hosts for their support and understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 40s has died at the Love is a Stranger mini-music festival at Ballyvolane House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-557668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557668","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=557668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}