{"id":398480,"date":"2026-04-14T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:03:08","slug":"woman-dies-after-being-assaulted-in-her-home-in-carlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398480\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after being assaulted in her home in Carlow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old woman has died two weeks after being assaulted in her home in Carlow.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a residence in Graiguecullen shortly after 6am on 26 March.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Costello was taken to St Luke&#8217;s General Hospital Carlow Kilkenny and subsequently to Beaumont Hospital for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 40s was arrested in connection but has since been released, with a file sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say an investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>A notice on RIP.ie says Ms Costello is survived by her two children, Ben and Amy, their father Larry, her parents, sister and brother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>She previously lived in Castledermot, Co Kildare and Ballyboden, Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old woman has died two weeks after being assaulted in her home in Carlow. Emergency services were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-398480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398480","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=398480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}