Garda\u00ed are investigating following the discovery of a woman\u2019s body in Castlebar, Co Mayo, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
The body was removed from the water at Lough Lannagh just outside the town shortly after 6:30am, and both garda\u00ed and emergency services remain at the scene.<\/p>\n
The woman, who was aged in her 70s, was pronounced dead at the scene, and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.<\/p>\n
A section of the popular walkway and amenity area at Lough Lannagh is currently closed to the public. The lake is located close to the town and is adjacent to holiday accommodation and tourism facilities.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na confirmed that an investigation was underway.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene of an incident at Lough Lannagh, Castlebar.<\/p>\n
\u201cShortly after 6:30am, garda\u00ed attended the scene and the body of a woman, aged in her 70s, was removed from the water,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was pronounced dead at the scene. A spot mortem will take place in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating following the discovery of a woman\u2019s body in Castlebar, Co Mayo, on Tuesday morning. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-421696","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\/421696","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=421696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}