{"id":360529,"date":"2026-03-23T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360529\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:21:09","slug":"family-werent-told-for-a-week-after-their-brothers-body-was-discovered-in-a-dublin-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360529\/","title":{"rendered":"Family weren\u2019t told for a week after their brother\u2019s body was discovered in a Dublin apartment"},"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\">Siblings of Jamie Weldon have called for a review into how garda\u00ed liaise with relatives when a person dies in tragic circumstances\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jamie Weldon\u2019s badly decomposed remains were\u00a0found in his flat on Kevin Street, Dublin on August 19, 2023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jamie Weldon.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)\">Jamie Weldon\u2019s badly decomposed remains were\u00a0found in his flat on Kevin Street, Dublin on August 19, 2023<\/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)\">The family of a Waterford man who were not notified of the discovery of his body in his Dublin apartment for almost a week have called for a review of how garda\u00ed liaise with relatives of deceased people who die in tragic circumstances.<\/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)\">The badly decomposed body of Jamie Weldon, who came originally from Butlerstown, Co Waterford, was found in his apartment in the Iveagh Trust Building on Upper Kevin Street, Dublin, on August 19, 2023, which would have been his 57th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Siblings of Jamie Weldon have called for a review into how garda\u00ed liaise with relatives when a person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-360529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","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\/360529","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=360529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}