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01/09/2008
Electric Picnic Reveller Hospitalised
A woman at the Electric Picnic Festival has been taken to hospital after suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.
The woman was taken to the intensive care unit of Portlaoise General Hospital at around 7.00am on Sunday and remains under observation and in a stable condition.
A second person was also taken to hospital some hours later as a precaution, but was not admitted.
The pair were among 12 people sleeping in a specially converted double-decker bus were carbon monoxide is believed to have leaked from a faulty generator.
In other Electric Picnic automotive news, hundreds of cars have become stuck in the mud at the Co Laois festival.
Heavy rain over night has left the fields where cars were parked very wet and tractors are being used to tow out some vehicles.
Traffic in and around Stradbally is extremely heavy with the Abbeyleix road particularly bad. Meanwhile GardaÍ are cracking down on drink driving as revellers head home.
There have been a number of arrests this morning following on from six others over the weekend.
(DW)
The woman was taken to the intensive care unit of Portlaoise General Hospital at around 7.00am on Sunday and remains under observation and in a stable condition.
A second person was also taken to hospital some hours later as a precaution, but was not admitted.
The pair were among 12 people sleeping in a specially converted double-decker bus were carbon monoxide is believed to have leaked from a faulty generator.
In other Electric Picnic automotive news, hundreds of cars have become stuck in the mud at the Co Laois festival.
Heavy rain over night has left the fields where cars were parked very wet and tractors are being used to tow out some vehicles.
Traffic in and around Stradbally is extremely heavy with the Abbeyleix road particularly bad. Meanwhile GardaÍ are cracking down on drink driving as revellers head home.
There have been a number of arrests this morning following on from six others over the weekend.
(DW)
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