{"id":318870,"date":"2026-02-26T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318870\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:17:09","slug":"wealthy-american-who-strangled-father-at-five-star-ballyfin-to-remain-detained-until-condition-hopefully-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318870\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealthy American who strangled father at five-star Ballyfin to remain detained until condition \u2018hopefully improves\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Henry McGowan has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John McGowan and his son Henry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/057ed5dc-7c1c-4e5d-8236-6cc1ee5d2cf4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John McGowan and his son Henry<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A wealthy New Yorker who strangled his father at a five-star midlands resort after the 66-year-old had travelled from the US on a \u201cmission of mercy\u201d to help his son, continues to suffer from a mental disorder, a court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Henry McGowan has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) where he is undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry McGowan has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital John McGowan and his son Henry A wealthy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9924,61,60,43,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-318870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-dublin-courts","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318870","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=318870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}