The bodies of a man and child have been found at separate properties in west Dublin, Garda\u00ed (Irish police) have said.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and emergency services were called to a home in Cherry Orchard in Ballyfermot, Dublin 10, at around 08:30 local time on Thursday where a body of a man in his 40s was found.<\/p>\n
The body of a boy was found at a home in Clondalkin, Dublin 22, shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n
BBC News NI understands the two bodies are that of a father and son.<\/p>\n
Both scenes 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 by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
The body of the man has been removed from the scene and brought to the city morgue while the body of the boy remains at the scene.<\/p>\n
“Post-mortem examinations will be arranged in due course,” said a garda spokesperson in a statement.<\/p>\n
“The results of these examinations will assist Garda\u00ed in determining the course of the investigation.<\/p>\n
“The investigation is being carried out under a senior investigating officer.”<\/p>\n
Sinn F\u00e9in councillor Daithi Doolan said it was “heartbreaking news”.<\/p>\n
“Deepest sympathy to the family and friends,” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n
“You are in our thoughts at this sad time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bodies of a man and child have been found at separate properties in west Dublin, Garda\u00ed (Irish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-234809","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\/234809","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=234809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}