{"id":468527,"date":"2026-05-04T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/468527\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:29:12","slug":"cyclist-50s-dies-following-crash-into-railing-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/468527\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist (50s) dies following crash into railing \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 50s died after his bike  crashed into a railing in Co Laois on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said the cyclist was removed from the scene on College Avenue in Mountmellick and brought to Midland Regional Hospital in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/portlaoise\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/portlaoise\/\">Portlaoise<\/a>. He received treatment but died on Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road remained closed on Monday evening for examination of the scene. Diversions were in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed investigating the  crash are asking witnesses to contact them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with camera footage of the area around the time of the incident, which occurred at about 4.30pm on Sunday, are asked to share this with investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 50s died after his bike crashed into a railing in Co Laois on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11763,11,12,15,16,5,14234,7,8],"class_list":["post-468527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-laois","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-portlaoise","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468527","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=468527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}