{"id":396794,"date":"2026-04-13T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396794\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:32:10","slug":"scarlett-faulkner-dies-following-attack-in-co-tipperary-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396794\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Faulkner dies following attack in Co Tipperary \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/courts\/2026\/03\/28\/woman-40-and-girl-16-charged-in-connection-with-attack-on-scarlett-faulkner-refused-bail\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/courts\/2026\/03\/28\/woman-40-and-girl-16-charged-in-connection-with-attack-on-scarlett-faulkner-refused-bail\/\">Scarlett Faulkner<\/a>, who was in a critical condition after she was attacked outside Birdhill in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tipperary<\/a> last month, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Faulkner (29), a mother of one from Longpavement, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a>, died on Monday surrounded by members of her family, after she was taken off life-support at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-university-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-university-hospital\/\">Cork University Hospital<\/a> on Sunday. She had been attacked on the side of the road on March 21st. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> Her brother Martin paid tribute in a Facebook post, saying  \u201cRip my lovely sister Scarlett\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> Faulkner\u2019s sister Victoria said: \u201cYou\u2019re at peace now sister, I don\u2019t know how I will ever live without you &#8230; you were always the best big sister to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A TikTok message posted by Joanne Duffy, partner of Faulkner\u2019s brother Thomas,  said: \u201cThe one and only Scarlett Faulkner passed so peacefully with her loving family around her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWhat a warrior, RIP my beautiful sister in law.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> Duffy thanked people for their \u201cprayers and support\u201d for Faulkner and her family since she was critically injured last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed on Monday evening said the coroner had been notified and a postmortem would take place in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A family liaison officer has been assigned to support the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said investigations were ongoing, and the force would not be making any further comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 16-year-old girl is before the courts charged with assault causing serious harm to Faulkner outside the village of Birdhill in Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The girl is alleged to have been a passenger in a car that had pursued and rammed a van that Faulkner and a man were travelling in on the R494, on the afternoon in question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> A court heard that when  Faulkner ran from the van she was allegedly pursued on foot by the girl and allegedly struck across her head with an iron bar at least  11 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 40-year-old woman, who allegedly drove the car that rammed the van that was carrying Faulkner, is charged with endangerment, violent disorder and burglary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The two accused females cannot be identified by order of Limerick District Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Both accused are due to appear on remand before Tipperary District Court, sitting in Nenagh, on April 23rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scarlett Faulkner, who was in a critical condition after she was attacked outside Birdhill in Co Tipperary last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,27121,42,1396,43,9123,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-396794","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-cork-university-hospital","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-limerick","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tipperary","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396794","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=396794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396794\/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=396794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}