A man has been arrested after another man in his 70s was fatally assaulted in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, yesterday.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 6pm last night, garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to an incident that occurred outside a residential property in the townland of Cappagh in Dungarvan, Co Waterford.<\/p>\n
The older man was found with serious injuries and was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
His body was removed to University Hospital Waterford where a post-mortem examination will take place.<\/p>\n
A man in his 40s was arrested at the scene and is held at a garda station in the eastern region.<\/p>\n
The scene has been preserved for forensic examination.<\/p>\n
The Coroner and the Office of the State Pathologist have been notified.<\/p>\n
A Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) has been appointed to lead the investigation and an incident room has been established at Dungarvan Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after another man in his 70s was fatally assaulted in Dungarvan, Co Waterford,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-397660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397660","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=397660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}