{"id":28315,"date":"2025-09-18T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/28315\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:56:10","slug":"man-arrested-over-fatal-hit-and-run-in-meath-last-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/28315\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over fatal hit-and-run in Meath last Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 40s has been arrested in connection with the death of a cyclist in a hit-and-run incident near Ballivor, Co Meath last week.<\/p>\n<p>The collision took place on the R156 near Boardsmill National School in the townland of Batterstown at around 9.50am last Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/regional\/2025\/0914\/1533420-cyclist-tributes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ned McLoughlin, who was aged in his 80s and lived close to where the collision occurred, was found unresponsive following the incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown, where he was subsequently pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle involved failed to remain at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The man arrested as part of the investigation is currently being detained at a garda station in the east of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He can be detained for up to 24 hours and garda\u00ed have also said that a vehicle has been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed continue to appeal to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>They are particularly interested in the movements of any heavy goods vehicles in the area between 9.30am and 10am last Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have also asked that any road users who may camera footage, including dash-cam, to make it available to them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to contact Trim Garda Station on 046 948 1540, the Garda Confidential Line at 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 40s has been arrested in connection with the death of a cyclist in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-28315","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\/28315","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=28315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}