{"id":424136,"date":"2026-04-29T22:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:25:10","slug":"biker-20s-dies-near-barleycove-in-west-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424136\/","title":{"rendered":"Biker, 20s, dies near Barleycove in West Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a pole in West Cork this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed said the accident happened off the R591 road between Dunmanus and Barleycove at approximately 11 am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The rider, a man in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene. His body has been taken from the scene and a post-mortem will take place in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The road off what is known locally as the Dunmanus Road\/Coast Road to Barleycove remains closed to facilitate an examination by forensic collision investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed have asked anyone who was traveling in the area between 10.45am and 11.15am to contact them and are also asking if anyone with camera footage can make it available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anyone with any information is asked to contact Bantry Garda Station on 027 20860, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a pole in West Cork this morning. Garda\u00ed said the accident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-424136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424136","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=424136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}