Man dies suddenly at music festival

A MAN died suddenly at the Body & Soul music festival in Westmeath yesterday.

The 31-year-old received treatment from advanced paramedics and a doctor at the festival’s medical tent but died at around 3pm.

A Garda spokesman said the death was not suspicious.

Elsewhere, a teenage boy was airlifted to hospital in Cork yesterday morning after a sailing accident off Schull. Emergency services were called at 11.25am to assist the 14-year-old, who was hit on the head by the boat’s boom.

In another rescue, a competitor in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series on Inis Mór island was air-lifted to hospital yesterday afternoon.

A Coast Guard helicopter from Shannon was dispatched to the Aran Islands after the woman sustained spinal injuries. She was airlifted to Galway University Hospital.

The sold-out event involves a 27 metre cliff dive.

There was also a rescue in Dublin when Howth Coast Guard was called to help a 53-year-old kitesurfer who was injured at Sutton in north Dublin. The man was treated at the scene by a nurse and the Coast Guard helped bring him to hospital. It is believed his injuries are serious.

Meanwhile, an investigation is under way after a woman in her 80s died in a house fire yesterday.

Emergency services were called to a house on Sea Road in Arklow, Co. Wicklow, at 12.30pm. The pensioner was pronounced dead at the scene.