{"id":493900,"date":"2026-06-11T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:35:13","slug":"car-ends-up-in-the-lake-at-st-stephens-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493900\/","title":{"rendered":"Car ends up in the LAKE at St Stephen&#8217;s Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A car has entered the water in the pedestrian area at St Stephen\u2019s Green.<\/p>\n<p>A photo of the incident, which was sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Extra.ie<\/a>, shows the car, which appears to be a grey Toyota SUV, after entering the body of water in St Stephen\u2019s Green.<\/p>\n<p>The artificial lake has water flow in from the Grand Canal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/stephens-green-car-in-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1780257\"  \/>A car has entered the water in the pedestrian area St Stephen\u2019s Green. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The car was partly submerged in the water, with its back wheels still on the pavement. <\/p>\n<p>Cars are strictly prohibited from entering the pedestrian gates at St Stephen\u2019s Green, and it is not yet known how the car got into St Stephen\u2019s Green in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Extra.ie has contacted <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/tag\/gardai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car has entered the water in the pedestrian area at St Stephen\u2019s Green. A photo of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-493900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493900","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=493900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}