{"id":17850,"date":"2025-08-23T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17850\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:11:07","slug":"n7-closed-at-rathcoole-following-incident-involving-truck-and-a-number-of-cars-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17850\/","title":{"rendered":"N7 closed at Rathcoole following incident involving truck and a number of cars \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emergency services and garda\u00ed are at the scene of a serious road crash on the N7 at Rathcoole, Co Dublin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident, involving a truck and a number of cars, happened at about 6.40pm on the westbound side of the road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road is closed and westbound traffic is being diverted at Junction 2 (Kingswood), garda\u00ed said on Friday night. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DUBLIN\/KILDARE TRAFFIC:<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed &amp; emergency services are currently at the scene of a road traffic collision on the N7 Westbound near Rathcoole.<\/p>\n<p>The road is closed and westbound traffic is being diverted at Junction 4.<\/p>\n<p>Please expect delays and consider another route if possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5lCzr1TgLU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5lCzr1TgLU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na (@GardaTraffic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GardaTraffic\/status\/1958953967276490880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Motorists are encouraged to avoid the area and use the N81 and N4, where possible, rejoining the N7 at Kill\/Johnstown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More to follow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services and garda\u00ed are at the scene of a serious road crash on the N7 at Rathcoole,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,3625,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-17850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-dublin","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-kildare","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}