{"id":670805,"date":"2026-10-31T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670805\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:12:09","slug":"man-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-co-kilkenny-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670805\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being hit by car in Co Kilkenny \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has died after being hit by a car in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny\/\">Co Kilkenny<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services attended the scene of the incident on the R691 at Desart Demesne near Callan, which occurred at about 5.50pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The male pedestrian, aged in his 70s, was pronounced dead at the scene. His body has been taken to University Hospital Waterford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The occupants of the car did not require hospital treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road is closed for examination by Garda technical staff, and traffic and diversions remain in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The local coroner has been notified and a postmortem will be arranged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Any road users who were travelling in the area at the time who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, are asked to make this footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after being hit by a car in Co Kilkenny on Friday. Garda\u00ed and emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1346,61,60,12969,43],"class_list":["post-670805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670805","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=670805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}