{"id":340990,"date":"2026-03-11T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:26:08","slug":"boy-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-at-dublin-shopping-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340990\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy dies after being hit by car at Dublin shopping centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-year-old boy has died after being struck by a car in an underground car park at a shopping centre in north Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed were called to the scene at Charlestown Shopping Centre in Finglas at around 8.40am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was taken by ambulance to Children&#8217;s Health Ireland at Temple Street with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>He died in hospital this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garda\u00ed at the scene of an incident in a car park inFinglas, Dublin 11.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/002409ba-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nGarda\u00ed were called to the scene of the incident in Finglas this morning<\/p>\n<p>The scene has been preserved, and a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators will take place.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say a Family Liaison Officer has being appointed to support the boy&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>They are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Finglas Garda Station on 01 666 7500, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A three-year-old boy has died after being struck by a car in an underground car park at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-340990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340990","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=340990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}