{"id":424903,"date":"2026-04-30T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424903\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:17:07","slug":"men-arrested-in-scarlett-faulkner-investigation-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424903\/","title":{"rendered":"Men arrested in Scarlett Faulkner investigation released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men who were arrested as part of the investigation into the fatal assault of a 29-year-old woman in Co Tipperary in March have been released without charge.<\/p>\n<p>Scarlett Faulkner sustained serious head injuries during the incident, which occurred on the roadside near the village of Birdhill on 21 March.<\/p>\n<p>She was transferred to Cork University Hospital and died there three weeks later on 12 April.<\/p>\n<p>The two men, one in his 40s and another aged in his late teens, were arrested on Tuesday and held at garda stations in Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n<p>Investigating garda\u00ed say files will now be prepared for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>A Family Liaison Officer has been assigned to support Ms Faulkner&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The teenager, who cannot be identified due to her age, is charged with assault causing serious harm to Ms Faulkner.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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 who were arrested as part of the investigation into the fatal assault of a 29-year-old woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-424903","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\/424903","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=424903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}