Two men, one in his 40s and another aged in his late teens, have been arrested as part of the investigation into the fatal assault of a 29-year-old woman in Co Tipperary in March.<\/p>\n
Scarlett Faulkner sustained serious head injuries during the incident, which occurred on the roadside near the village of Birdhill on 21 March.<\/p>\n
She was transferred to Cork University Hospital and died there three weeks later on 12 April.<\/p>\n
The two men were arrested this morning and are being held at garda stations in Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said a Family Liaison Officer has been assigned to support Ms Faulkner’s family.<\/p>\n
A 40-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl have been before the courts in connection with the incident in Birdhill.<\/p>\n
The teenager, who cannot be identified due to her age, is charged with assault causing serious harm to Ms Faulkner.<\/p>\n
The woman, who also cannot be named by order of the court, faces four charges, including violent disorder, reckless endangerment, and two counts of burglary.<\/p>\n
They are due to appear before Nenagh District Court for directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions on 15 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men, one in his 40s and another aged in his late teens, have been arrested as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-421571","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\/421571","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=421571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}