{"id":629670,"date":"2026-09-19T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629670\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:06:11","slug":"woman-dies-after-trench-collapse-in-co-limerick-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629670\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after trench collapse in Co Limerick \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An investigation into the death of a mother of three in Co Limerick has been referred to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/health-and-safety-authority\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/health-and-safety-authority\/\">Health and Safety Authority<\/a> (HSA) by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman, who has been named locally as Elizabeth \u201cLiz\u201d Lynch, from the Newcastle West area, died after a trench that was being dug for the preparation of a septic tank collapsed in on top of her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fatal incident occurred at a site at Kilmeedy, a short distance from Newcastle West town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Despite the efforts of others at the scene, she was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokesman said that garda\u00ed attended the scene of \u201ca fatal workplace incident at a premises in Kilmeedy, Co Limerick,\u201d on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA woman aged in her 40s was pronounced deceased at the scene. This matter has been referred to the HSA for further investigation,\u201d said the spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">When asked for comment, a HSA spokesman said: \u201cThe Health and Safety Authority is aware of the incident and has launched an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local councillor Adam Teskey said: \u201cIt is an awful shock to people here in the locality, the area is in immense mourning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt\u2019s taking a devastating toll on the community and our sympathies are with the family at this time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Elizabeth Lynch was involved in coaching young girls in sport and she was a member of Monagea Ladies Gaelic Football Club. The club has suspended all activity this weekend as a mark of respect, as has Newcastle West Town FC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation into the death of a mother of three in Co Limerick has been referred to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43391,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-629670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-health-and-safety-authority","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629670","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=629670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}