{"id":629510,"date":"2026-09-19T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629510\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:28:09","slug":"woman-in-her-40s-killed-in-workplace-incident-in-kilmeedy-co-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629510\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in her 40s killed in workplace incident in Kilmeedy, Co Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WOMAN IN her forties has died in a workplace incident in Kilmeedy, Co Limerick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on Friday. It is understood that the woman was involved in digging a trench to make way for a septic tank pipe at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said that garda\u00ed attended the scene of the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA woman aged in her 40s was pronounced deceased at the scene,\u201d they added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that the matter has been referred to the Health and Safety Authority for further investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WOMAN IN her forties has died in a workplace incident in Kilmeedy, Co Limerick.\u00a0 The incident took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7782,43391,22876,61,60,82246,1396,43,267254],"class_list":["post-629510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gardai","tag-health-and-safety-authority","tag-hsa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilmeedy","tag-limerick","tag-news","tag-workplace-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629510","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=629510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}