{"id":540942,"date":"2026-07-09T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/540942\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:59:14","slug":"cyclist-in-his-50s-dies-after-co-mayo-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/540942\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist in his 50s dies after Co Mayo crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A cyclist in his 50s has died following a crash in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mayo\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mayo\/\">Mayo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services responded to reports shortly after 9pm on Wednesday of a crash involving a vehicle and a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident took place outside Ballinrobe on the N84 at Carrowkeel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A seriously injured man was taken to University Hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\">Galway<\/a>, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene remains preserved for forensic examination by garda\u00ed and the road is closed, with diversions in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone with information or video footage of the area around the time of the incident to contact Claremorris Garda station on 094 9372080, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/environment\/2026\/07\/08\/temperatures-could-reach-28-degrees-on-wednesday\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Met \u00c9ireann forecasts temperatures to increase from Friday as some areas face water restrictionsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist in his 50s has died following a crash in Co Mayo. Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,8764,43],"class_list":["post-540942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540942","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=540942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}