{"id":86692,"date":"2025-10-17T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86692\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:16:09","slug":"horses-killed-following-crash-with-vehicle-in-kilkenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86692\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses killed following crash with vehicle in Kilkenny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motorists travelling through the area at the time were met with a deeply distressing scene\n<\/p>\n

\"Garda\u00ed<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed and emergency services rushed to the scene of a crash in Kilkenny city involving a vehicle and horses. Photo: stock image\/PA<\/p>\n

A number of horses have been killed during a crash involving a single vehicle and on the outskirts of Kilkenny city this morning.<\/p>\n

Emergency services including local garda\u00ed and members of the Kilkenny Fire Service were called to the scene of the crash involving a vehicle and horses on the slip road at Junction 8 on the M9 Southbound at Kilkenny city.<\/p>\n

The crash occurred at approximately 6am this morning. <\/p>\n

The occupants of the vehicle did not sustain any injuries, but a number of horses were killed when they were struck by the vehicle.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood that at least two horses are deceased.<\/p>\n

Motorists travelling through the area at the time were met with a deeply distressing scene, as the bodies of the horses lay on the road following the crash.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed and the fire brigade quickly arrived at the scene to deal with the incident and to remove the dead horses.<\/p>\n

Efforts are being made to establish the owner of the horses.<\/p>\n

In a statement to the Irish Independent, a garda spokesperson confirmed: “Garda\u00ed attended the scene of a road traffic collision involving a vehicle and horses on the slip road at Junction 8 on the M9 Southbound at Kilkenny city at approximately 6am this morning, Friday, October 17 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo injuries to occupants of the vehicle were reported.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists travelling through the area at the time were met with a deeply distressing scene Garda\u00ed and emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7499,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-86692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aisling-bolton-dowling","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\/86692","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=86692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}