{"id":27885,"date":"2025-09-17T23:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/27885\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:14:06","slug":"man-arrested-as-part-of-garda-investigation-into-death-of-cyclist-80s-in-meath-hit-and-run-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/27885\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested as part of Garda investigation into death of cyclist (80s) in Meath hit-and-run \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Garda\u00ed have arrested a man in his 40s as part of their investigation into the death of a cyclist in his 80s following a hit-and-run in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\">Meath<\/a> last Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Edward (Ned) McLoughlin, from Trim, Co Meath, was discovered unresponsive at the scene in Batterstown, Ballivor. Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to the fatal collision on the R156 at about 10am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr McLoughlin was brought to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">On Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">garda\u00ed<\/a> arrested a man in his 40s and have detained him at a Garda station under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act. They can hold him there for up to 24 hours for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokesman said a vehicle has been recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed at Trim Garda Station continue to appeal for information from the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr McLoughlin\u2019s death notice says he will be greatly missed by his partner Thelma, his brothers and sisters, their partners, his nieces, nephews and extended family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have arrested a man in his 40s as part of their investigation into the death of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,15949,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-27885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-meath","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27885","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=27885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}