A 38-year-old man who died at the Love is a Stranger mini music festival at Ballyvolane House in Castlelyons in Co Cork yesterday has been named locally.<\/p>\n
Popular DJ Mark O’Brien, who was affectionately known as ‘Beanzy’, was found unresponsive in his tent at the festival yesterday morning.<\/p>\n
CPR was administered by paramedics. However, he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Mr O’Brien, who lived in Sheares Street in Cork city centre, was known for his passion for music.<\/p>\n
The Coroner has been made aware of the death and an inquest will be held at a later date.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the team at the festival said that they were “absolutely devastated” to learn of the death of an attendee at Love is a Stranger.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with the individual’s family, friends, and loved ones at this extremely difficult time,” they said.<\/p>\n
The statement added: “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
“Out of respect for those affected, today’s closing concert has been cancelled.<\/p>\n
“We would like to thank the emergency services, our crew, volunteers and attendees and hosts for their support and understanding.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old man who died at the Love is a Stranger mini music festival at Ballyvolane House in…\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-560167","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\/560167","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=560167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560167\/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=560167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}