{"id":584472,"date":"2026-08-06T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584472\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:30:09","slug":"motorcyclist-50s-dies-following-crash-in-co-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584472\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist (50s) dies following crash in Co Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist has died following a crash with a van in Dunmanway, Co. Cork, on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at approximately 2:30 pm on the R587 near Gloun North.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist, a man in his 50s, was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>His body has been removed to Cork University Hospital, where a post-mortem will take place.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries have been reported at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The road remained closed this afternoon for examination by Forensic Collision Investigators. It has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who witnessed the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Any road users travelling in the area between 2:15 pm and 3:00 pm, 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 Clonakilty Garda Station on 023 882 1570, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist has died following a crash with a van in Dunmanway, Co. Cork, on Wednesday afternoon. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-584472","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\/584472","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=584472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}