{"id":674323,"date":"2026-09-05T19:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/674323\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:14:16","slug":"child-2-hospitalised-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-in-co-limerick-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/674323\/","title":{"rendered":"Child (2) hospitalised after being hit by vehicle in Co Limerick \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A two-year-old child has been taken to hospital after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\">knocked down by a vehicle<\/a> in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It happened in the town of Rathkeale shortly after 4pm, Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The child is understood to be in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The child, believed to be a boy, was removed from the scene by air ambulance and was being treated at University Hospital Limerick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\">garda\u00ed<\/a> are investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda press officer said: \u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road traffic collision in Rathkeale, Co Limerick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More to follow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-year-old child has been taken to hospital after being knocked down by a vehicle in Co Limerick.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,1844,15,16,5,11697,7,8],"class_list":["post-674323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-limerick","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-road-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117220033282607297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674323","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=674323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}