{"id":398439,"date":"2026-04-14T19:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398439\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:26:15","slug":"woman-54-dies-following-assault-at-her-home-in-carlow-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398439\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (54) dies following assault at her home in Carlow \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 54-year-old woman has died following an assault at her home in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/carlow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/carlow\/\">Co Carlow<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Linda Costello (n\u00e9e Flood) was assaulted at The Tower apartment block in Graiguecullen. The incident happened at some time between Wednesday night, March 25th, and the early hours of March 26th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She was brought to St Luke\u2019s Hospital in Kilkenny at 6:50am on March 26th and was unresponsive but breathing when attended to by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> said Costello had sustained bruising to her right upper arm, her abdomen and chest, as well as trauma to her right eye.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A suspect was arrested at the scene and subsequently interviewed before being released without charge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Costello died after being transferred to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin last Friday, April 10th. She is survived by her two children, Ben and Amy, their father Larry, her parents, sister and brother-in-law. She previously lived in Castledermot, Co Kildare and Ballyboden, Dublin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Funeral arrangements are due to be published later this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old woman has died following an assault at her home in Co Carlow last month. Linda Costello&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-398439","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\/398439","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=398439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}