{"id":269467,"date":"2026-01-06T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269467\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:24:07","slug":"cork-student-20-dies-after-taking-ill-on-ski-trip-in-french-alps-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269467\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork student (20) dies after taking ill on ski trip in French Alps \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 20-year-old student from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\/\">Cork<\/a> has died after becoming ill  during a ski holiday with friends at a French ski resort over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/university-college-cork-ucc\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/university-college-cork-ucc\/\"> University College Cork<\/a> (UCC) student from Tower, near Blarney, died on Saturday during a trip with a Cork skiing and snowboarding group at a resort in the French Alps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local Fine Gael councillor Damian Boylan said the community in Tower and Blarney was shocked. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cEveryone was shocked at the news \u2013 the lad was well known and well liked and would have been very involved with Blarney Utd so there\u2019s a real sadness about the place today,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt\u2019s every parent\u2019s worst nightmare for something like this to happen and away from home and all \u2013 it is so sad \u2013 my deepest sympathies are with his family.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cllr Boylan said that the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust was assisting the family with arrangements to get their son\u2019s body back to Cork as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old student from Cork has died after becoming ill during a ski holiday with friends at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,1877,18,13,14,2220,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,3274],"class_list":{"0":"post-269467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-university-college-cork-ucc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115845782810329517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}