{"id":142094,"date":"2025-11-16T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142094\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:06:09","slug":"woman-60s-dies-following-house-fire-in-co-offaly-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142094\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (60s) dies following house fire in Co Offaly \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman in her 60s has died following a house fire on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\/\">Offaly<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\">Tipperary<\/a> border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fire broke out at about 10pm on Friday in Moneygall and emergency services were at the scene a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fire was brought under control by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fire-service\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fire-service\/\">fire service<\/a> and the woman\u2019s body was found inside the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> said no one else was injured as a result of the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The local coroner\u2019s office has been informed and the woman\u2019s body has been taken to the Midland Regional Hospital mortuary in Tullamore, Co Offaly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A postmortem examination will be carried out in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene of the fire has been preserved to allow a forensic examination to take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 60s has died following a house fire on the Offaly\/Tipperary border. The fire broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,81611,61,60,43,8286,9123],"class_list":{"0":"post-142094","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-fire-service","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-offaly","14":"tag-tipperary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}