{"id":535598,"date":"2026-07-06T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535598\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:02:09","slug":"motorcyclist-in-his-70s-dies-following-crash-in-cavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535598\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist in his 70s dies following crash in Cavan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist in his 70s has died in hospital following a crash in Co Cavan yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene at Drumsillagh, Tullyvin, Co Cavan, at around 10.50am yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The man was airlifted to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, where he died last night.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed for for a technical examination, but later reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, and were travelling in the area between 10am and 11am yesterday, to make it available to them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Bailieboro Garda Station on 042 969 4570, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s death <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/ireland\/2026\/0705\/1581833-fatal-crash-cork\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brings to four the number of motorcyclists who have died on the country&#8217;s roads over the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Co Dublin, a motorcyclist in his 50s died following a crash at the Skerries 100 motorcycle race yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In Co Cork, a motorcyclist in his 30s died following a collision in Ballyhea on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>In Co Kildare, a motorcyclist in his 50s died following a crash in Kilcock on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, a man in his 20s died in a two-car collision in Co Donegal yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year 92 people have died on Irish roads, compared to 82 for the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist in his 70s has died in hospital following a crash in Co Cavan yesterday. Garda\u00ed and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-535598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535598","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=535598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}