Large earth cracks rip football pitch in half after mine collapse, Ireland
A part of an old mine collapsed in Ireland's Monaghan County on September 24, 2018, creating huge cracks in the ground and ripping a football pitch in a half.
A local school was evacuated and some playing fields at a nearby GAA club subsided an exclusion zone has been set up around the mine as a precautionary measure, RTE reports.
"It's just total devastation surreal," said Magheracloone Gaelic Football Club’s chairman, Francis Jones, said. "You would not believe what you're seeing you would think it was something out of a film you were looking at."
Jones believes the grounds will be shut for a number of years.
An investigation is under way after part of an old mine in Co Monaghan collapsed, forcing students from a local school to evacuate and damaging a nearby GAA club pic.twitter.com/4x7ZwvA9FX
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 24, 2018
A spokesman for the club said the club's ground, community center and pitch are completely out of bounds, adding that nobody was hurt as the cracks opened overnight.
Gyproc, the owner of the old mine, said pillars in a mine had collapsed after water had been transported and stored in a section that had not previously been used for water storage.
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