{"id":344852,"date":"2026-03-13T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344852\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:34:09","slug":"murder-accused-told-gardai-that-mother-of-two-was-his-soul-mate-and-he-was-now-replaying-a-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344852\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder accused told garda\u00ed that mother of two was his \u2018soul mate\u2019 and he was now \u2018replaying a nightmare\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\">Adam Corcoran (31) has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Daena Walsh (27) at their Cork flat in August 2024\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victim Daena Walsh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4b802bba-c6d1-492f-82d0-3a012193811e.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)\">Victim Daena Walsh<\/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 man who denies the murder of a mother of two found with catastrophic stab injuries in a burning apartment told garda\u00ed he was \u201creplaying a nightmare\u201d after the death of his \u201csoul mate\u201d and \u201cbest friend\u201d.<\/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)\">Adam Corcoran (31) has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Daena Walsh (27) who was found with horrific injuries in their Cork flat that included \u201ca gaping wound\u201d to her chest, a slit throat and a partially amputated left arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Corcoran (31) has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Daena Walsh (27) at their Cork flat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,6785],"class_list":["post-344852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ralph-riegel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344852","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=344852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}