{"id":373752,"date":"2026-03-30T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373752\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:30:08","slug":"sudden-death-of-man-34-being-investigated-by-garda-watchdog-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373752\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden death of man (34) being investigated by Garda watchdog \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The sudden death of a man aged 34 on Saturday in Mullingar, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/westmeath\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/westmeath\/\">Westmeath<\/a>, is being investigated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fiosru\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fiosru\/\">Fiosr\u00fa<\/a>, the Office of the Police Ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fiosr\u00fa has appealed to any witnesses to the incident to come forward, including anyone who was on Main Street in Mullingar between 10am and 11am on Saturday, March 28th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They are also seeking dashcam footage from passing vehicles in the location, or mobile device footage from anyone who may have witnessed the man and his interaction with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">garda\u00ed<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Office of the Police Ombudsman is engaging with the man\u2019s family.  Fiosr\u00fa  said that as the matter is  under investigation, it could not make any further comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The referral to Fiosr\u00fa was made by a Garda Superintendent under section 203(1) of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act, which relates to any matter that appears to the Garda Commissioner to indicate that the act or omission of a member of Garda personnel may have resulted in the death of, or serious harm to, a person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sudden death of a man aged 34 on Saturday in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, is being investigated by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,104174,61,60,57,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-373752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-fiosru","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mullingar","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373752","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=373752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}