{"id":212589,"date":"2025-12-26T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212589\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:53:08","slug":"jockey-paul-kavanagh-20-killed-in-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212589\/","title":{"rendered":"Jockey, Paul Kavanagh, 20, killed in car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galway jockey Paul Kavanagh, 20, has died following a car accident on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred at around 2am on Wednesday on the N20 road in Limerick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Kavanagh had been part of Enda Bolger\u2019s team for two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Bolger paid tribute to Kavanagh, describing him as \u201ca credit to his parents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cWe\u2019re devastated,\u201d said Bolger. \u201cHe was the most polite, well-mannered and well-brought-up young man we ever had anything to do with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">&#8220;He was a credit to his parents. I can\u2019t imagine what they are going through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Garda\u00ed appealed to anyone who was travelling on the N20 in the Bruree area between 1.40am and 2.15am to contact them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">They have also appealed for any camera footage that may exist of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galway jockey Paul Kavanagh, 20, has died following a car accident on Christmas Eve. The collision occurred at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7782,61,60,11318,112],"class_list":["post-212589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-road-safety","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}