{"id":615577,"date":"2026-09-05T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615577\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:32:11","slug":"two-year-old-child-in-serious-condition-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-in-co-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615577\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-year-old child in serious condition after being hit by vehicle in Co Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TWO-YEAR-OLD child has been rushed to hospital after being knocked down by a vehicle in Co Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in the town of Rathkeale, in the west of Co Limerick, shortly after 4pm today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The child, believed to be a boy, was rushed by air ambulance from the scene and is being treated at University Hospital Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>The child is understood to be in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>Local garda\u00ed are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said: \u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road traffic collision in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, this afternoon Saturday 5 September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo additional information is available at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TWO-YEAR-OLD child has been rushed to hospital after being knocked down by a vehicle in Co Limerick.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47181,61,60,179477,43,39830,17229],"class_list":["post-615577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-co-limerick","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-main-street","tag-news","tag-rathkeale","tag-university-hospital-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615577","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=615577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}