{"id":396886,"date":"2026-04-13T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396886\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:43:07","slug":"scarlett-faulkner-passes-away-after-life-support-turned-off-family-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396886\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Faulkner passes away after life support turned off, family confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heartbroken family of Scarlett Faulkner has taken to social media to say she has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>The Limerick mother, 29, has been on life support at Cork University Hospital since she <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/munster\/arid-41814605.html\">was critically injured in an assault<\/a> at the side of the R494 road in Birdhill, Co Tipperary, on Saturday, March 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The family said her life support was switched off at 4pm on Sunday but that she had stayed breathing overnight on her own as they kept a vigil by her bedside and had continued to ask for prayers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In an update on social media on Monday evening, her brother posted \u201cRIP my lovely sister Scarlett\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Her cousin Melissa McCarthy, who had kept the public updated via videos online, posted a montage of images of Scarlett, captioned: \u201cFly high our girl love you forever my beautiful cousin oh your poor family and little girl 13.04.2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cGoodbye our girl fly high your with the angels now, oh god mind aunt Mary and banny all your brothers and sisters especially your little girl nieces, nephews in-laws fly high your fought until the last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A woman aged in her 40s and a teenage girl have been <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/munster\/arid-41818370.html\">charged in connection with the assault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ms Faulkner suffered critical head injuries in the attack. She is the mother of a six-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Video footage of the attack was widely shared on social media, and An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na has continued to appeal to people not to share it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heartbroken family of Scarlett Faulkner has taken to social media to say she has passed away. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7782,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-396886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396886","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=396886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}