{"id":389660,"date":"2026-04-09T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389660\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:26:08","slug":"scarlett-faulkner-critically-injured-in-attack-to-have-life-support-switched-off-family-says-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389660\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Faulkner, critically injured in attack, to have life support switched off, family says \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The family of Scarlett Faulkner, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a> woman left with critical head injuries following an assault three weeks ago, has said her life support is to be switched off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Faulkner, a mother of one in her 20s, has been in an induced coma at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-university-hospital\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-university-hospital\/\">Cork University Hospital<\/a> after she was attacked on the side of a main road outside the village of Birdhill, Co Tipperary, on March 21st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Members of her family have been posting regular updates on social media of her condition in hospital and also asking people to pray for her recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a social media post, Josephine (Joanne) Duffy, a partner of Scarlett\u2019s brother Thomas Faulkner, said: \u201cThings are not looking good. On Friday they\u2019re disconnecting Scarlett [from] her life\/support machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She asked for help in organising the funeral and also thanked the public for their prayers and support over the past three weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThanks so much for all the prayers that didn\u2019t go unnoticed, and pray now for peace for Scarlett, and justice, of course, thank ye all so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 16-year old girl has been charged with assault causing serious harm to Faulkner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 40-year old woman is charged with endangerment, violent disorder as well as burglary, arising out of the Garda investigation into the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The pair cannot be identified by order of Judge Carol Anne Coolican.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They have been remanded in custody to appear before Tipperary District Court on April 23rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of Scarlett Faulkner, the Limerick woman left with critical head injuries following an assault three weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,50043,61,60,1396,43,9123],"class_list":{"0":"post-389660","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-cork-university-hospital-cuh","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tipperary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389660","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=389660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}