Child stable after being impaled by metal spike at Dublin Horse Show
An eight-year-old girl is in a serious condition in hospital after being impaled by a metal spike at the Dublin Horse Show on Saturday.
The child is thought to have been visiting the Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals stand when it collapsed.
A metal spike is thought to have pierced the child’s head and neck.
She was taken to hospital where her condition is said to be stable.
No one was available to comment from the Dublin Horse Show which concluded yesterday.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.