{"id":592633,"date":"2026-08-14T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592633\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:00:25","slug":"cork-farmer-who-drowned-in-river-bandon-while-getting-water-for-animals-named-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592633\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork farmer who drowned in River Bandon while getting water for animals named locally"},"content":{"rendered":"

The farmer who drowned in Co Cork<\/a> while trying to get water for his animals from a local river has been named locally as Eugene McSweeney.<\/p>\n

Mr McSweeney, who was aged in his 50s, was found in the River Bandon at Dunmanway, Co Cork, on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services were called to the scene, but he was pronounced dead after being removed from the water.<\/p>\n

His death has been described as a \u201ctragic accident\u201d.<\/p>\n

“He went into the river to get water for his animals, but as the water levels had dropped so much [with the dry weather] he went in much further than he usually would. He slipped into a 3m hole and could not get out,” a source said.<\/p>\n

The man’s body has been removed to Cork University Hospital mortuary, where an autopsy will be arranged, a garda statement said.<\/p>\n

The coroner and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) have been notified.<\/p>\n

‘Very sad news’<\/p>\n

Independent Ireland TD for Cork South West Michael Collins described the incident as \u201cvery sad news\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said that the man had been getting water for his animals from the River Bandon, which a lot of farmers were having to do due to the hot weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all have to be so careful around water in this weather, but it\u2019s difficult when people have to retrieve water for their animals, there is a serious drought at the moment and farmers are under severe pressure to make sure their animals are catered for.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sincere sympathies to his family at this time for their tragic loss, and to his neighbours and friends,\u201d Mr Collins said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The farmer who drowned in Co Cork while trying to get water for his animals from a local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-592633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592633","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=592633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}