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Child rescued from claw machine in arcade

Rob Beschizza
Oct 01, 2025
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Emergency services rushed to an arcade in Shannon, Ireland, after a child somehow got trapped inside a claw machine there. The Clare Champion’s Pat Flynn reports that the child is believed to have climbed in to the “Cosmic Crane” through “a large slot from which the footballs are dispensed,” then “clambered up into the mai…

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