{"id":421028,"date":"2026-04-28T03:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421028\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:32:08","slug":"woman-40s-dies-in-fatal-assault-in-waterford-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421028\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (40s) dies in fatal assault in Waterford \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman in her 40s has died following an assault at a house in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\/\">Waterford<\/a> city on Monday evening. A man, also in his 40s, has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services responded to an incident at the house at Grange Heights in the southeast of the city at approximately 6.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman was taken to University Hospital Waterford where she was pronounced dead a short time later. The State Pathologist was notified and a postmortem examination was expected to take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man was arrested at the scene and was detained at a Garda station in the Waterford division under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984. The scene was preserved for technical examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior investigating officer has been appointed to lead the investigation and an incident room has been established at Waterford Garda station. Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A family liaison officer has been assigned to support the family of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone who was in the Grange Heights area on Monday, between 6pm and 6.30pm who may have camera footage, including CCTV or dashcam, is asked to provide this footage to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Waterford Garda station on 051 305300, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 40s has died following an assault at a house in Waterford city on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43,6513],"class_list":["post-421028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421028","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=421028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}