{"id":425376,"date":"2026-04-30T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:25:09","slug":"passengers-saved-as-fire-destroys-bus-on-m7-near-tipperary-laois-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425376\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers saved as fire destroys bus on M7 near Tipperary Laois border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A bus was completely destroyed after going up in flames on the M7 motorway.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9e57a58c-d441-4774-a6f5-16ef1d3e5222.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A bus was completely destroyed after going up in flames on the M7 motorway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Passengers on a bus travelling near the Tipperary Laois border were evacuated uninjured from a blaze which engulfed the vehicle on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda\u00ed and emergency services were alerted to a bus on fire near the M7, between junction 21, Borris-in-Ossory and junction 22, Roscrea, on Thursday, April 30, at around 8.15am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThe fire was safely extinguished,\u201d said garda\u00ed. \u201cNo injuries have been reported at this time.\u201d The M7 between junctions 21 and 22 has reopened to traffic. It was previously closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tipperary Fire Service received the call-out at 8.20am. Three fire stations responded, two from Tipperary and one from Laois. \u201cThere were no casualties,\u201d said a spokesperson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The bus was entirely destroyed and the cause of the fire has not been ascertained at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bus was completely destroyed after going up in flames on the M7 motorway. Passengers on a bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37898,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-425376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-eoin-kelleher","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425376","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=425376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}