{"id":145978,"date":"2025-11-18T07:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145978\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:31:07","slug":"woman-dies-man-seriously-wounded-in-stabbing-attack-outside-their-cork-home-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145978\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies, man seriously wounded in stabbing attack outside their Cork home \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\">Cork<\/a> are investigating a stabbing incident that left a woman (59) dead and her husband (62) seriously injured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident happened in the Shrewsbury Downs estate off the Ballinlough Road on the city\u2019s southside at about 9.30pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 20s is believed to have attacked the couple outside their home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Neighbours saw the incident and rang the emergency services. Officers from the Armed Support Unit (ASU) from Anglesea Street Garda station were among the first to arrive on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed disarmed the suspect \u2013 who was known to the couple \u2013 and arrested him. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Cork stabbing map Nov 17 2025\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763451067_394_OSA6BDJXPRHL7CDEZSMGKSCWYU.png\"   width=\"800\" height=\"489\"\/>Map: Glen Murphy <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Paramedics arrived soon afterwards and the couple were taken by ambulance to Cork University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman died in hospital at about midnight. A postmortem is due to be carried out on her body. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Meanwhile the man underwent emergency surgery and remains in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The suspect was taken to the Bridewell Garda station, where he is being held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, which allows garda\u00ed detain suspects before they must be charged or released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood he was due to be examined last night by a doctor to assess whether he was fit to be interviewed about the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The couple are well-known business people on Leeside, where they have a business in the Oliver Plunkett Street area of the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed sealed off the scene of the attack last night and forensic examiners are due to begin a full technical examination on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have begun door-to-door inquiries and are seeking to harvest CCTV footage from houses in the usually quiet estate in a bid to try to establish the sequence of events leading to the assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed in Cork are investigating a stabbing incident that left a woman (59) dead and her husband (62)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,46,27121,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-145978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork","tag-cork-university-hospital","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145978","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=145978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}