{"id":408040,"date":"2026-04-20T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408040\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:58:07","slug":"scarlett-faulkners-brother-jason-faulkner-dies-days-after-her-funeral-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408040\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Faulkner\u2019s brother Jason Faulkner dies days after her funeral \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A brother of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/04\/17\/scarlett-faulkner-remembered-at-funeral-with-beautiful-smile-as-mourners-gather-in-grief\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/04\/17\/scarlett-faulkner-remembered-at-funeral-with-beautiful-smile-as-mourners-gather-in-grief\/\">Scarlett Faulkner<\/a>, who died in hospital three weeks after she was allegedly assaulted in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\">Tipperary<\/a>, has died two days after her funeral in Limerick. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Jason Faulkner, who was in his 30s, from Longpavement Halting Site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a>, was a pallbearer at his sister\u2019s funeral at St Munchin\u2019s Church last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His body was recovered from a river in Limerick on Sunday evening, garda\u00ed said. No cause of death has been given. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Relatives and friends of the Faulkner family shared messages on social media of their shock and sorrow at hearing of his death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokeswoman said: \u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene of an incident at the Abbey River, Limerick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cShortly after 5pm, garda\u00ed were alerted to a body in the water. Fire services removed the body of a man, aged in his 30s and he was taken to University Hospital Limerick where he was pronounced deceased a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA postmortem will take place in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Scarlett Faulkner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/YPOUIDW5ABGZ7AF3LCZ3T6TJV4.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Scarlett Faulkner. Photograph: Family\/Facebook <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a Facebook post, Limerick Marine Search and Rescue Service said it was tasked by the Irish Coast Guard \u201cto an incident at Athlunkard Boat Club to assist all services involved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Scarlett Faulkner died last Monday, three weeks after she was allegedly assaulted with an iron bar at a roadside outside Birdhill village, Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 16-year-old girl and a 40-year-old woman have appeared in court charged in connection with the incident on March 21st. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/04\/17\/scarlett-faulkner-remembered-at-funeral-with-beautiful-smile-as-mourners-gather-in-grief\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scarlett Faulkner\u2019s \u2018beautiful smile\u2019 remembered at funeral as mourners gather in griefOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brother of Scarlett Faulkner, who died in hospital three weeks after she was allegedly assaulted in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1346,61,60,1396,43,9123],"class_list":{"0":"post-408040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tipperary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408040","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=408040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}