{"id":419441,"date":"2026-04-27T05:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419441\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T05:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:19:16","slug":"man-30s-arrested-after-woman-65-dies-following-assault-in-co-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419441\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (30s) arrested after woman (65) dies following assault in Co Galway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has died following a serious assault at a residential property in Ballybrit, Galway, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at approximately 11.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>A woman, aged 65 years, was removed from the scene to University Hospital Galway in a serious condition and passed away in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem examination has taken place, the results of which are not being disclosed for operational reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The scene remains preserved and is continuing to be examined by the Garda Technical Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>A man, aged in his 30s, has since been arrested and is currently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at a Garda station in the North Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>He has since been charged and will appear before a special sitting of Galway District Court on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has died following a serious assault at a residential property in Ballybrit, Galway, on Friday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-419441","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\/419441","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=419441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}