{"id":670857,"date":"2026-10-31T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670857\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:28:10","slug":"man-70s-dies-after-being-struck-by-car-in-co-kilkenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670857\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 70s, dies after being struck by car in Co Kilkenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 70s has died after he was struck by a car in Co Kilkenny yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The man was pronounced at the scene of the incident, which occurred at around 5.50pm on the R691 at Desart Demesne near Callan.<\/p>\n<p>His body was removed to University Hospital Waterford.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The road remains closed for a technical examination and local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai are appealing to any witnesses, or any road users who were travelling in the area at the time and who may have camera footage (including dash-cam), 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 in his 70s has died after he was struck by a car in Co Kilkenny yesterday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-670857","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\/670857","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=670857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}