{"id":570900,"date":"2026-07-27T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/570900\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:26:09","slug":"man-killed-in-east-clare-road-traffic-collision-named-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/570900\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed In East Clare Road Traffic Collision Named Locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man killed in a road traffic collision in East Clare over the weekend has been named locally.<\/p>\n<p>Long-time Broadford resident, Sergeant Andrew O\u2019Riordan, lost his life after the car he was travelling in was involved in a single-vehicle collision on the R466 at Gortnaglough outside Broadford shortly after 5:30 on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The County Cork native and father of five had lived in the Clare village and was stationed at Mayorstone Park in Limerick for over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, he became the first English speaker to graduate from from \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de la Police (French National School of Police) after a year of training as part of a diplomatic exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man killed in a road traffic collision in East Clare over the weekend has been named locally.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-570900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570900","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=570900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}