{"id":563152,"date":"2026-07-22T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563152\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:50:09","slug":"man-30s-dies-after-being-struck-by-van-in-co-kilkenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563152\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 30s, dies after being struck by van in Co Kilkenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 30s has died after he was struck by a van in Co Kilkenny this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said it happened on the R693 near Arigan Bridge, Cooleshal, Freshford at 9.30am.<\/p>\n<p>The man &#8211; a pedestrian &#8211; was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>His body was taken to University Hospital Waterford, where a post-mortem examination will be carried out.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed for a time, but has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Any road users who were travelling from Freshford towards Kilkenny between 9am and 9.30am this morning and who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) are asked to make it available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Kilkenny Garda Station on 056 777 5000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has died after he was struck by a van in Co Kilkenny this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-563152","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\/563152","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=563152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}