{"id":270448,"date":"2026-01-06T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270448\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:00:09","slug":"teen-airlifted-to-cork-hospital-after-farm-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270448\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen airlifted to Cork hospital after farm accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

The young man was taken by air ambulance to CUHCork University Hospital<\/p>\n

A teenager was rushed to hospital by air ambulance after an accident on a farm in Co Kerry<\/a>. The boy was injured in an incident on a farm in the Sneem area, near Molls Gap, yesterday.<\/p>\n

The teenager is understood to have been working on the farm when an accident involving a vehicle occurred shortly after midday. Emergency services rushed to the scene where the youth was found seriously injured. He was airlifted to Cork University Hospital <\/a>by air ambulance for urgent medical care. The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has been made aware of the incident.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed<\/a> confirmed emergency services attended the scene yesterday afternoon. A spokesperson said: “Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended a workplace incident on a property in Sneem, Co. Kerry on Monday, 5th January 2026. The incident occurred at approximately 12.15pm.<\/p>\n

“A male youth, aged in his teens, was brought by air ambulance to Cork University Hospital for treatment. The Health and Safety Authority has been notified.”<\/p>\n

Agriculture remains one of the most dangerous industries in Ireland, with latest figures from the HSA showing that of the 58 victims of work-related fatalities last year, 23 people lost their life as a result of workplace incidents on farms in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The young man was taken by air ambulance to CUHCork University Hospital A teenager was rushed to hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,25099,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5599,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-270448","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-university-hospital","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-munster","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115848755610770767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270448","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=270448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}