{"id":674577,"date":"2026-09-05T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/674577\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:39:10","slug":"boy-2-hit-and-killed-by-jeep-in-co-limerick-named-locally-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/674577\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy (2) hit and killed by jeep in Co Limerick named locally \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> were investigating a hit-and-run in which a two-year old boy was killed in Co Limerick on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The boy, named locally as Peter Mulcaire, from Abbeycourt, Rathkeale, was pronounced dead after he suffered catastrophic injuries after he was struck by a jeep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident occurred near the boy\u2019s home, around 4pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant for the purpose of providing a sample of urine\/blood. He was released after he provided the sample.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Contrary to earlier reports, the man was not arrested for the purposes of questioning him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Peter Mulcaire had been playing on a toy tractor when he was struck by the jeep, it is understood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Rathkeale community fun day, which had been scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled by the organisers \u201cout of respect\u201d to the boy and his family and the \u201ctragic circumstances\u201d of Peter Mulcaire\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Friends and relatives of the boy posted photographs of him on social media and shared their sympathies and shock with his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cNever in my life seen sadder, may u get best bed Peter only a baby &#8230; heartbreaking,\u201d stated a relative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Another stated: \u201cHeartbreaking &#8230; rest in peace baby Peter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A neighbour of the child\u2019s family, wrote: \u201cl\u2019ve never see sadder, rest in peace to our little neighbour Peter, may God comfort his family tonight. I\u2019m so sorry for year loss, my heart breaks for his family, a little angel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier, paramedics were had been alerted to the town following the incident and brought the boy by ambulance to Adare village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The paramedics then handed over the boy to other paramedics waiting in an air ambulance in a field outside the village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The boy was airlifted to hospital where he was pronounced dead on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda family liaison officer was appointed to the boy\u2019s family as the Garda investigation into the circumstances of his death continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed were also harvesting CCTV footage from homes in the Rathkeale area as part of the probe into the boy\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are keen to speak to anyone with dash cam footage or doorbell footage that may help them with their enquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed were investigating a hit-and-run in which a two-year old boy was killed in Co Limerick on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674578,"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-674577","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\/117221075572694400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674577","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=674577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}