A young man has been taken to hospital after his hand became impaled on the railings of a historic abbey in Ennis.
Emergency services were alerted to the incident on Abbey Street in the town, at around twenty past two this morning.
The alarm was raised shortly after two o’clock this morning, after a man in his early 20’s got into difficulty at the 13th century Franciscan Abbey, which is located just 100 metres from Ennis Garda station.
Ambulance paramedics and units from Ennis Fire Brigade were dispatched to the scene along with Gardaí.
On arrival, they found the young man standing on top a 5-ft high stone wall, with his right hand firmly impaled in a spike on top of the railing.
Paramedics treated and monitored the patient while fire service personnel began the task of removing the man from the railing.
It’s understood the rescue effort took almost an hour.
The injured man was then transferred by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick, where he was due to undergo surgery this morning to remove the metal piece.
