A man has been arrested after a man in his 70s died following an assault in Co Waterford, yesterday.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed responded to an incident at a house on a large farm in the townland of Cappagh, about 10km east of Dungarvan shortly after 6pm.<\/p>\n
The farm is understood to be around 150 acres in size.<\/p>\n
The man in his 70s was found with serious injuries and later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
His body has been removed to University Hospital Waterford, where a post-mortem examination will be carried out.<\/p>\n
A man in his 40s was arrested at the scene and is being held at a garda station in Waterford.<\/p>\n
It is understood that he and the victim were known to each other.<\/p>\n
The farm is believed to be around 150 acres in size.<\/p>\n
The scene has been preserved for a forensic examination and the Office of the State Pathologist has been notified.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed say their investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a man in his 70s died following an assault in Co Waterford,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-397879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397879","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=397879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}