Student has extremely narrow escape during Limerick College Christmas

ONE student had an extremely narrow escape during College Christmas in Limerick

A video shared on social media shows a young man, clad in a Christmas jumper, avoiding being seriously injured by a falling road sign just in the nick of time.

There appears to have been only millimetres between the student’s head and what looks like a large-size concrete block, or weight, which was attached to the bottom of the sign. The concrete block was balancing overhead between a wall and the top of a van.

The young man appears to have been going to move a beer barrel in a city laneway when the freak incident occurred prompting the person recording the video to exclaim: “Oh My God.”

As the concrete block smashed onto the ground from the height, the young man and other students in the vicinity stood back in disbelief.

It is understood that the young man was in the city centre for College Christmas.

Limerick Live understands that no one was injured as a result of the incident, which occurred on Theatre Lane.

For anyone unfamiliar with the tradition, College Christmas is an annual celebration of the holiday season that sees hordes of college students wake up at four in the morning to party - and drink - all day long.

Anyone who was in Limerick city on Wednesday, November 11, likely witnessed the floods of students on the streets of the city, donning Christmas jumpers and other festive garb.

Commenters on various social media posts wished the students well, with one Facebook user advising them to “enjoy and look after each other”.

Emergency services were on hand throughout the day, with a fire truck stationed outside Dunnes Stores on Henry Street on Wednesday morning and four firefighters monitoring the area as the celebrations got underway.

Multiple garda vehicles were surveying streets across Limerick city all day and all night and there has been no reports of any major incidents.