{"id":584615,"date":"2026-08-06T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584615\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:06:09","slug":"motorcyclist-50s-killed-in-west-cork-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584615\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist (50s) killed in west Cork crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A motorcyclist in his 50s has died following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\">crash<\/a> in west <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\">Cork<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man was pronounced dead at the scene following a collision with a van near Gloun North, Dunmanway. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The collision occurred at about 2.30pm on the R587, which was closed for a period for forensic examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are appealing for any witnesses of the collision to contact Clonakilty Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As of August 5th, 110 people have been killed on Irish roads in 2026, an increase of 11 when compared to the same period last year, according to Garda figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Drivers accounted for 46 fatalities, followed by pedestrians (19) and passengers (19).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A further 14 fatalities were motorcyclists, while eight were cyclists. The remaining four deaths involved e-scooters or e-bikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist in his 50s has died following a crash in west Cork on Wednesday afternoon. The man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,46,61,60,43,11318],"class_list":["post-584615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-road-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584615","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=584615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}