{"id":105289,"date":"2025-05-16T04:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/105289\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T04:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:06:12","slug":"wayward-cow-closes-carriageway-in-co-tyrone-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/105289\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayward cow closes carriageway in Co Tyrone \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A wayward cow shut down part of a dual carriageway in Co Tyrone for approximately an hour on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Road users on the A4 near Dungannon were first warned to exercise caution after the errant animal found its way on to the road around the Parkanaur junction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police were called to the scene to deal with the incident, which began shortly before 5pm. Motorists were advised to seek an alternative route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly after 6.30pm, the the PSNI reported that the \u201cdual carriageway outside Dungannon, in the vicinity of the Parkanaur junction\u201d had reopened.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/a-thank-you-might-have-been-in-order-lets-go-hydro-owner-hits-back-at-claims-from-parkrun-group-TSQEV3CXTRBLPAJOTMQKGLUC5M\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"&#x2018;A thank you might have been in order&#x2019;: Let&#x2019;s Go Hydro owner hits back at claims from Parkrun group\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747368371_919_TTCLQ7KIA5BVXNQAD5KXV6YR7A.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/ten-of-thousands-spent-on-cleaning-up-11th-night-bonfire-site-at-co-antrim-reservoir-BICH4JZQDZGGJLHBFWCSRSC5QI\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ten of thousands spent on cleaning up 11th night bonfire site at Co Antrim reservoir \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JO35W4Z6RJDUJEA247V53TUI6Q.JPG\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, traffic on the M2 northbound out of Belfast came to a standstill following a four vehicle crash near the Greencastle junction shortly after 5pm. Fire service vehicles attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No injuries were reported and the road reopened after approximately 20 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wayward cow shut down part of a dual carriageway in Co Tyrone for approximately an hour on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[48339,48337,48338,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-105289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-closed","9":"tag-cow","10":"tag-dual-carriageway","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114515541114172196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}