{"id":419348,"date":"2026-04-27T03:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:31:11","slug":"man-50s-dies-following-mountain-bike-crash-in-co-wexford-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419348\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (50s) dies following mountain bike crash in Co Wexford \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 50s has died following a mountain bike crash in north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wexford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wexford\">Wexford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><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>and emergency services were alerted after the man was seriously injured while mountain biking in a wooded area in Askamore, shortly after 1pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The mountain biker was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later, garda\u00ed said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The coroner has been notified and the man\u2019s body has been removed to the mortuary at Wexford General Hospital, where a postmortem examination will be arranged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A file will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local Fine Fael TD Brian Brennan said that his \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d are with the dead man\u2019s family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 50s has died following a mountain bike crash in north Wexford. Garda\u00ed and emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43,9270],"class_list":["post-419348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-wexford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419348","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=419348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}