{"id":645778,"date":"2026-10-05T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/645778\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:18:09","slug":"mountjoy-prison-officer-killed-in-madrid-road-incident-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/645778\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountjoy prison officer killed in Madrid road incident \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Irish prison officer has died after being hit by a car in the Spanish capital of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/spain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/spain\/\">Madrid<\/a> in the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man was hit by a taxi at about 2.20am while crossing the Ronda de Toledo, a major road in Madrid\u2019s city centre near the Toledo Gate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He has been named locally as 52-year-old Liam Donoghue, who worked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mountjoy-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mountjoy-prison\/\">Mountjoy Prison<\/a> as a prison officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was considered a popular and well-known officer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> prison. The man\u2019s immediate family has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Paramedics and law enforcement attended the scene and treated the prison officer for cardiac arrest, local officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was transferred to the nearby Hospital Cl\u00ednico Universitario San Carlos and was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/department-of-foreign-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/department-of-foreign-affairs\/\">Department of Foreign Affairs<\/a> said it was aware of the case and is providing consular support to the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAs with all consular cases, the department does not comment on the details of individual cases,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Madrid municipal police said in a statement: \u201cPreliminary indications suggest that he was crossing the road at an unauthorised location, but an investigation is currently underway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irish prison officer has died after being hit by a car in the Spanish capital of Madrid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1844,615,61,60,89406,43,2846],"class_list":["post-645778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-department-of-foreign-affairs","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mountjoy-prison","tag-news","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645778","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=645778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}