{"id":270883,"date":"2026-01-06T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270883\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:24:13","slug":"cork-student-20-who-died-after-falling-ill-on-french-skiing-trip-named-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270883\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork student (20) who died after falling ill on French skiing trip named locally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Cian O\u2019Brien, from Gleann na R\u00ed, Tower, near Blarney, is understood to have died on Sunday night during a trip with a skiing and snowboarding group at a resort in the French Alps.<\/p>\n

Mr O\u2019Brien is reported to have been working as an electrical apprentice with a pharmaceutical company in Cork, and being with a group of friends who had gone to France with the Cork Snow Sports Society.<\/p>\n

It is believed Mr O\u2019Brien had been out with his friends on Sunday night and later went to bed, but his friends were unable to wake him on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were alerted but efforts to resuscitate him were not successful.<\/p>\n

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Today’s News in 90 Seconds, Tuesday, January 6 <\/p>\n

Local Fine Gael councillor Damian Boylan said the news was the worst a family could ever get.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is every parent\u2019s nightmare. You hug your child and you drop them to the airport or whatever and you say \u2018go on away and have a ball and we\u2019ll talk to you when you come back. Enjoy yourself\u2019 and the next thing you\u2019re faced with is this, the ultimate horror,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s never a good time of the year but this is awful. My heart breaks for the family. I don\u2019t know how you would deal with it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lad was well known and well liked and the family are very involved with Blarney United football club. There\u2019s a real sadness about the place today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A funeral notice posted online said that Mr O\u2019Brien had died unexpectedly in France, describing him as the \u201cdarling son of Paul and Sabrina (n\u00e9e Ryall) and loving brother of Lauren. Beloved grandson of Tim and Cora Ryall and Irene and the late Derek O\u2019Brien and loving great grandson of the late Nora Ryall\u201d.<\/p>\n

“Sadly missed by his heartbroken parents, sister, grandparents, auntie Ciara, uncle Edward, aunts Norma and Sinead, uncles Sean and Alan, cousins, his many friends especially Luke, Joey, Pod, Tadgh, Cathal, Ted and Sean, relatives and neighbours,\u201d the notice continued.<\/p>\n

It is understood the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust is assisting the family with arrangements to repatriate the young man\u2019s body to Cork as quickly as possible before funeral arrangements are finalised.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs has said it is aware of the case and is providing consular assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs in all cases the Department does not comment on individual cases,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student Cian O\u2019Brien, from Gleann na R\u00ed, Tower, near Blarney, is understood to have died on Sunday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,23,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-270883","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-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-news-ticker","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115850029570485257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270883","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=270883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}