{"id":530565,"date":"2026-07-03T05:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530565\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:26:10","slug":"jack-lynch-tunnel-reopens-after-crash-while-four-homes-evacuated-following-cork-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530565\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Lynch Tunnel reopens after crash while four homes evacuated following Cork fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jack Lynch Tunnel has fully reopened after a two-car collision earlier today, while four homes on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/cork-news\/\">Cork city<\/a>\u2019s northside were evacuated after a house fire caused significant smoke damage.<\/p>\n<p>A two-car collision occurred in the eastbound lane approaching the northbound bore from the Dunkettle side at approximately 2pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene, and members of Cork City Fire Brigade used specialist equipment to extricate a passenger from one of the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The passenger was treated at the scene by National Ambulance Service personnel before being taken to Cork University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The road remained closed for a period before reopening, and traffic was reported to be flowing freely after the two vehicles were removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">House fire Separately, fire service personnel responded to a house fire on Kilmore Road, Knocknaheeny, which resulted in significant smoke damage to four neighbouring homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Victor Shine, second officer with Cork City Fire Brigade, said the fire was quickly contained and extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cA number of pets were evacuated from one of the houses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Shine said the fire caused only minor structural damage, but there was significant smoke damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">No injuries were reported in either incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jack Lynch Tunnel has fully reopened after a two-car collision earlier today, while four homes on Cork&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-530565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530565","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=530565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}