{"id":523558,"date":"2026-06-29T03:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/523558\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T03:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:46:17","slug":"cyclist-30s-dies-following-crash-in-kilkenny-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/523558\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist (30s) dies following crash in Kilkenny \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A cyclist in his 30s has died following a crash in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny\/\">Co Kilkenny<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man was involved in a crash with a car on Wednesday, June 24th, on the L100 Tullaroan Road near Loughmacask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident took place at 5.30pm and the cyclist was brought to St Luke\u2019s General Hospital Carlow Kilkenny with \u201cserious injuries\u201d. He was later transferred to Beaumont Hospital, where he died yesterday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda experts performed a technical examination of the scene and a postmortem examination is due to take place to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Witnesses to the incident and those who may have relevant dashcam footage of the L100 Tullaroan Road, Co Kilkenny, on Wednesday evening have been asked to contact garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said on Friday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garda.ie\/en\/roads-policing\/statistics\/roads-policing-fatalities-to-date-for-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.garda.ie\/en\/roads-policing\/statistics\/roads-policing-fatalities-to-date-for-2026\/\">85 people had died this year on Irish roads<\/a>. Separately this weekend, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/06\/27\/man-90s-dies-in-road-collision-in-co-laois\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/06\/27\/man-90s-dies-in-road-collision-in-co-laois\/\">man in his 90s<\/a> died after a moving car struck an unoccupied parked car in Co Laois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist in his 30s has died following a crash in Co Kilkenny earlier this week. The man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,12969,43],"class_list":["post-523558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523558","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=523558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}