{"id":563520,"date":"2026-07-23T01:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563520\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:45:21","slug":"man-30s-dies-after-being-hit-by-a-van-in-co-kilkenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563520\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (30s) dies after being hit by a van in Co Kilkenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died after he was hit by a van in Freshford, Co. Kilkenny, on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened on the R693 near Arigan Bridge, Cooleshal, at 9.30 am.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, a man in his 30s, was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>His body has been conveyed to University Hospital Waterford, where a post-mortem examination will take place.<\/p>\n<p>The road has since been 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 the hours of 09:00 am and 09:30 am and who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) are asked to make this footage available to investigating 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<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after he was hit by a van in Freshford, Co. Kilkenny, on Wednesday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-563520","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\/563520","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=563520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}