{"id":350261,"date":"2026-03-17T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:10:08","slug":"cyclist-dies-and-man-arrested-following-balbriggan-road-traffic-incident-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350261\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist dies and man arrested following Balbriggan road traffic incident \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A cyclist has died and a man has been arrested following a road traffic incident in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">north Co Dublin<\/a> on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a> said the emergency services were alerted to an incident involving a truck on Dublin Street in Balbriggan at about 12.40pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA male cyclist (aged in his 70s) was pronounced deceased at the scene,\u201d said the force in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It added that the coroner was notified and a postmortem would be arranged in due course. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man, aged in his 30s, was arrested at the scene and the road was closed for a period to allow a technical examination to be carried out by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed appealed to anyone who witnessed the incident, or who had relevant camera footage recorded between 12pm and 1pm on Dublin Street, to contact Balbriggan Garda station on 01-6664500, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800-666111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Thirty-eight people have died on the State\u2019s roads so far this year, up from 31 in the same period in 2025. Monday\u2019s incident marked the first death of a pedal cyclist on the roads so far this year, according to Garda statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist has died and a man has been arrested following a road traffic incident in north Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28566,61,60,1634,43],"class_list":["post-350261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bob","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-media","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350261","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=350261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}