Motorcyclist in his 40s fatally injured at Cork Motocross event

A motorcyclist has died following an incident at a motocross event in Mount Vernon on Sunday afternoon. 

Gardai and paramedics from the National Ambulance Service attended the scene on the outskirts of Cork City around 1:30pm.

The man, who is aged in his 40s was pronounced deceased at the scene. 

A post-mortem examination will be carried out at Cork University Hospital. A Garda investigation is now underway surrounding the incident and the Coroner has been informed with an inquest to be held in due course. 

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It marks the fourth fatality in Cork in just a matter of days as a pedestrian was killed following a collision on Saturday night and a further two people lost their lives in separate incidents on Thursday. 

A pedestrian in his 40s was fatally injured following a collision with a car which occurred on the M8 Motorway northbound at Carrigane, Mitchelstown on Saturday night. 

A man in his 40s was also killed following a collision involving a heavy goods vehicle in Ballycotton around 3:30pm on Thursday evening. 

Only just hours later, a young woman aged in her 20s was pronounced deceased at the scene after her bike collided with a truck in Cork city around 6pm on Thursday evening.