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File photo of hay bales. Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

Man seriously injured after being 'crushed' by hay bale

The incident happened at 7pm this evening.

A MAN HAS been airlifted to hospital after he was seriously injured in a farm accident in Clare this evening.

The incident happened at around 7pm at a farm in Fanore in the north of the county. It’s understood that a hay bale rolled over the man.

The Doolin unit of the Irish Coast Guard was requested to respond to the scene and assist the National Ambulance Service.

The Shannon-based search and rescue helicopter, Rescue 115, which had been returning from a training exercise in Galway Bay, was also tasked and requested to land on the beach in Fanore where Coast Guard members had secured and marked a landing zone.

Ambulance paramedics and Coast Guard volunteers stretchered the casualty to the helicopter before he was airlifted to Shannon Airport. From there he was transported by road to University Hospital Limerick for treatment.

The man is understood to have sustained crush injuries in the accident.

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    Mute Martin Byrne
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    Aug 1st 2017, 10:10 PM

    Hope he recovers.

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    Mute pat coffey
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    Aug 1st 2017, 10:27 PM

    I would of thought and hay bale rolling over you would not be that bad as they are soft maybe I have not been up close to one

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    Mute Joe Burke
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    Aug 1st 2017, 10:30 PM

    @pat coffey: only about 500kgs and solid as a rock!

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    Aug 1st 2017, 10:53 PM

    @pat coffey: Jesus pat, there is a lot of weight to them. Please god he will recover.

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    Aug 1st 2017, 11:30 PM

    @Joe Burke:
    Whatever it was I hope the guy gets better.
    Going by past experience with the journal a “bale of hay” could in fact be anything from a relatively light bale of straw at maybe 200kg to a 1000kg bale of silage.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 12:55 AM

    @Christopher Treacy:
    It’s an understandable misconception for anyone who’s never seen one up close.

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    Aug 2nd 2017, 1:58 AM

    @Christopher Treacy:
    Between bel ends and planks you do like to throw silly insults around.

    I spent the first 25 years of my life on a farm. I have played with round bales of straw, worked with them and been hit by them.
    How long have you worked on a farm?

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    Aug 2nd 2017, 8:39 AM

    @Christopher Treacy:
    Take a Valium and relax.

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    Mute Lord Clanricarde
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    Aug 2nd 2017, 9:21 AM

    @Christopher Treacy: “Take on a bale” are they that rowdy?…Few valium required Chris when you turn an article about an injured man into a insulting argument about the weight of a bale!!

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 1:06 AM

    Now That’s The Last Straw

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 11:40 PM

    From Fanore by air to Shannon and then off by ambulance to Limerick…….. one really doesn’t want to be injured in Ireland

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