{"id":48036,"date":"2025-06-25T07:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=48036"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:54:10","slug":"two-men-injured-in-ship-explosion-at-limerick-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=48036","title":{"rendered":"Two men injured in ship explosion at Limerick port"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two men have been seriously injured after an explosion on a ship in County Limerick in the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It happened at Shannon Foynes Port on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irish broadcaster&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/ireland\/2025\/0624\/1520151-foynes-incident\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RT\u00c9 reported<\/a>&nbsp;that the men were carrying out routine maintenance on the ship when a gas cylinder exploded at about 18:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency services, including garda\u00ed (Irish police) and paramedics, attended the scene and two men were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The port was closed for a time on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/ireland\/2025\/0624\/1520151-foynes-incident\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RT\u00c9<\/a>&nbsp;Shannon Foynes Port Company said the accident is being investigated by relevant authorities and the matter on board the ship &#8220;has been made safe&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Two men have been seriously injured after an explosion on a ship in County Limerick in the Republic of Ireland. It happened at Shannon Foynes Port on Tuesday evening. Irish broadcaster&nbsp;RT\u00c9 reported&nbsp;that the men were carrying out routine maintenance on the ship when a gas cylinder exploded at about 18:30. Emergency services, including garda\u00ed (Irish police) and paramedics, attended the scene and two men were taken to hospital. The port was closed for a time on Tuesday night. In a statement to&nbsp;RT\u00c9&nbsp;Shannon Foynes Port Company said the accident is being investigated by relevant authorities and the matter on board&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48038,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48036\/revisions\/48038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}