The bodies of a man and a boy have been discovered at separate homes in Ballyfermot and Clondalkin in Dublin this morning.<\/p>\n
It is believed the victims are a father and son who had been reported missing for a short time last year, before being discovered safe and well.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and emergency services were first called to a house on Cherry Orchard in Ballyfermot at around 8:30am, where the body of the man, aged in his 40s, was found.<\/p>\n
In follow-up inquiries, the body of the boy, believed to be 11 years old, was discovered at a house in Clondalkin.<\/p>\n
Both homes have been preserved for forensic examination by the Garda Technical Bureau.<\/p>\n
The coroner has been notified and the services of the Office of the State Pathologist have been requested.<\/p>\n
The body of the man has been removed from the scene in Ballyfermot to the city morgue for a post-mortem.<\/p>\n
The body of the boy remains at the scene in Clondalkin.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed suspect the child died violently and that the man may have subsequently taken his own life, but they are stressing that the results of post-mortem examinations will assist in determining the course of the investigation.<\/p>\n
Both houses have been sealed off for forensic examinations.<\/p>\n
The investigation is being led by a senior investigating officer.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have not issued an appeal for witnesses or information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bodies of a man and a boy have been discovered at separate homes in Ballyfermot and Clondalkin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-234413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234413","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=234413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}