{"id":369383,"date":"2026-03-28T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369383\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:05:09","slug":"dublin-solicitor-who-was-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-son-leaves-almost-e50m-in-his-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369383\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin solicitor who was accused of sexual assault by son leaves almost \u20ac50m in his will"},"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\">Walter Beatty Sr was previously president of the Law Society<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Walter Beatty Sr at a Jurys Doyle AGM in 1999. Photo: Graham Hughes\/Photocall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/XXvwTT1.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)\">Walter Beatty Sr at a Jurys Doyle AGM in 1999. Photo: Graham Hughes\/Photocall<\/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 Dublin solicitor and hotel investor who was accused of sexual assault by one of his sons has left almost \u20ac50m in his will.<\/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)\">Walter Beatty Sr, who died aged 91 on September 28, 2024, was formerly a partner in the Vincent &amp; Beatty legal firm and served as president of the Law Society in 1979 and 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walter Beatty Sr was previously president of the Law Society Walter Beatty Sr at a Jurys Doyle AGM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,93,61,60,6083],"class_list":["post-369383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-niamh-horan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369383","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=369383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}