Garda\u00ed are investigating the death of a woman in suspicious circumstances in Co Carlow.<\/p>\n
Mother-of-two Linda Costello, who has been named locally, was found at a house in Graiguecullen, Co Carlow on Thursday, March 26th shortly after 6am.<\/p>\n
Costello, who was in her 50s, was rushed to St Luke\u2019s General Hospital by ambulance and subsequently to Beaumont Hospital for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n
Despite efforts by medical staff, Costello died last Friday in hospital.<\/p>\n
A garda spokesperson said that they, along with emergency services, attended \u201ca domestic residence on Bridge Street, Graiguecullen, Co Carlow shortly after 6am\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Coroner has been notified and a post-mortem examination has been conducted.<\/p>\n
A man aged in his 40s was arrested in connection with this investigation and detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.<\/p>\n
Garda added that the man has since been released and a file will be prepared for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n
It is understood that Costello suffered a number of injuries to her body when she was found unconscious, including bruising to one of her eyes, chest, arm, and abdomen, along with blood around her mouth and bedclothes.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said their investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n
In her death notice, Costello, formerly from Castledermot, Co Kildare and Ballyboden, Dublin is described as dying \u201ctragically\u201d.<\/p>\n
She is survived by her children Ben and Amy, their father Larry, parents Ronnie and Patricia, sister Samantha, brother-in-law Keith, aunts, uncles, cousins, extended family, relatives and friends, \u201cespecially her good friends Emma and Siobhan\u201d.<\/p>\n
Costello\u2019s funeral arrangements are yet to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating the death of a woman in suspicious circumstances in Co Carlow. Mother-of-two Linda Costello, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-397877","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\/397877","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=397877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}