{"id":269936,"date":"2026-01-06T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:24:08","slug":"man-30s-struck-by-bus-on-oconnell-street-in-dublin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269936\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 30s, struck by bus on O&#8217;Connell Street in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital after he was struck by a bus on O&#8217;Connell Street in Dublin city centre this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at about 12.15pm on the southbound side of the street.<\/p>\n<p>The man was brought to Mater Misericordiae University Hospital for injuries that are not believed to be life threatening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garda tape can be seen stretching across a Dublin Bus parked on O'Connell Street.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0023b2cb-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe southbound side of O&#8217;Connell Street is close to traffic (Pic: Rolling News)<\/p>\n<p>The southbound lane of O&#8217;Connell Street was closed for a time earlier but has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic delays in the area have eased and public transport services are operating as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital after he was struck by a bus on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-269936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115847198434946425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269936","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=269936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}