{"id":400037,"date":"2026-04-15T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400037\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:46:10","slug":"son-charged-with-assault-causing-harm-after-father-found-dead-on-waterford-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400037\/","title":{"rendered":"Son charged with assault causing harm after father found dead on Waterford farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Court told defendant denied kicking his father in the head and insisted he acted in self\u2011defence during confrontationThe judge was told the accused\u2019s mother was present in court and was in favour of him returning to the family home\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Cashman (45) arriving to Carrick-on-Suir District Court today (Photo: James Treacy)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cc155b7e-bd70-47df-b964-4de76d9803d6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John Cashman (45) arriving to Carrick-on-Suir District Court today (Photo: James Treacy)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A man was charged with assault causing harm to his father after the pensioner was found dead at the family&#8217;s sprawling Waterford farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">John Cashman Jnr (45) appeared before Carrick-on-Suir District Court after his father, John Cashman Snr (73), was discovered injured and unresponsive on Monday evening at the farm beside the family&#8217;s Georgian house in west Waterford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0 Court told defendant denied kicking his father in the head and insisted he acted in self\u2011defence during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-400037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400037","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=400037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}