{"id":108755,"date":"2025-05-17T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108755\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:13:10","slug":"middletown-cyclist-paddy-mcdonald-dies-in-co-armagh-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108755\/","title":{"rendered":"Middletown: Cyclist Paddy McDonald dies in Co Armagh road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0\"The<\/p>\n

The accident happened on Friday in Co Armagh. Stock photo<\/p>\n

A man has died after an accident in Co Armagh yesterday.<\/p>\n

Paddy McDonald (62), a cyclist from the Co Monaghan area, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

The accident happened on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The accident happened on Friday in Co Armagh. Stock photo<\/p>\n

News Catch Up – Friday 16 May <\/p>\n

Inspector Cherith Adair, from the Collision Investigation Unit, said: \u201cPolice received a report at around 2.20pm of a serious road traffic collision involving a car and a cyclist on the Monaghan Road in the Middletown area.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers attended, alongside colleagues from our partner emergency services. A male cyclist was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was 62-year-old Paddy McDonald from the Castleblayney area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe road was closed for a period of time as officers conducted enquiries, but has since re-opened.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollision Investigation Unit detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the collision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 The accident happened on Friday in Co Armagh. Stock photo A man has died after an accident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1999,779,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-108755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-adrian-rutherford","9":"tag-armagh-news","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114522646556228402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108755","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=108755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}