{"id":149008,"date":"2025-11-19T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149008\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:10:08","slug":"cork-stab-victim-to-be-laid-to-rest-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149008\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork stab victim to be laid to rest on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A father-of-three who suffered multiple stab wounds in the driveway of a Cork home on Sunday morning will be buried on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Mark O\u2019Connell, 38, had called to a house in Hollyhill where he got into an altercation with a man known to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was stabbed in the chest and shoulder area, it is understood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Although emergency services were called to the scene in Hollyville and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/munster\/arid-41744430.html\"> Mr O&#8217;Connell<\/a> was rushed to hospital, he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His body will repose at Jerh O\u2019Connor&#8217;s Coburg St Funeral Home in Cork City on Thursday from 5pm to 6pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> His requiem Mass will be held at 11.30am on Friday in the Church of the Resurrection, Farranree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His funeral will follow afterwards to St Catherine\u2019s Cemetery, Kilcully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr O&#8217;Connell was the father of Katlyn, Jake, and Se\u00e1n, partner of Samantha, and brother of Philip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He is predeceased by his mother Ann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An autopsy by Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margot Bolster found that Mr O&#8217;Connell died a violent death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A 55-year-old man was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984, but subsequently released without charge on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed will prepare a file for the DPP on the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father-of-three who suffered multiple stab wounds in the driveway of a Cork home on Sunday morning will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-149008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149008","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=149008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}