{"id":229297,"date":"2026-01-05T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229297\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:37:08","slug":"man-30s-struck-by-bus-on-oconnell-street-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229297\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 30s, struck by bus on O&#8217;Connell Street in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital after he was struck by a bus on O&#8217;Connell Street in Dublin city centre this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at about 12.15pm on the southbound side of the street.<\/p>\n<p>The man was brought to Mater Misericordiae University Hospital for injuries that are not believed to be life threatening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garda tape can be seen stretching across a Dublin Bus parked on O'Connell Street.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0023b2cb-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe southbound side of O&#8217;Connell Street is close to traffic (Image: Rolling News)<\/p>\n<p>The southbound lane of O&#8217;Connell Street was closed for a time earlier but has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic delays in the area have eased and public transport services are operating as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital after he was struck by a bus on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-229297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229297","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=229297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}