{"id":373573,"date":"2026-03-30T21:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:07:10","slug":"three-more-arrests-made-in-investigation-into-murder-of-father-of-eight-william-delaney-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373573\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more arrests made in investigation into murder of father of eight William Delaney \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> investigating the disappearance of a father of eight in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\" target=\"_blank\">Co Laois<\/a> in 2019 have arrested a further three people for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Monday, two women and a man were arrested in connection with the death of William Delaney (56). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They are being held under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939 at Garda stations in the midland and southwestern regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Delaney\u2019s death has been treated as a murder since mid-2019, as garda\u00ed received information claiming the victim was tortured and murdered before his remains were dumped in a makeshift grave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In November 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/11\/26\/gardai-believe-father-of-eight-tortured-murdered-remains-buried-in-co-laois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/11\/26\/gardai-believe-father-of-eight-tortured-murdered-remains-buried-in-co-laois\/\">three people were held and questioned as part of the investigation<\/a>, before being released without charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The arrests of those suspects brought to six the number of people detained for questioning since the investigation into how Delaney vanished was stepped up midway through 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed on Monday renewed their appeal for information, saying \u201cpeople in the community have information and have not yet come forward\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed urged anyone with information to contact Portlaoise Garda station on 057 8674100, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The investigation was hampered at the outset by a delay in the reporting of Delaney\u2019s disappearance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He vanished in Portlaoise in January 2019, but was not reported missing for another six weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The last confirmed sighting of Delaney, who was originally from Co Tipperary but was living in Portlaoise at the time he disappeared, was on January 31st, 2019. He had been released from a period in psychiatric treatment the day before he disappeared. He had taken time away on his own in the past, meaning his absence did not cause concern initially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigating the disappearance of a father of eight in Co Laois in 2019 have arrested a further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-373573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373573","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=373573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}