{"id":427698,"date":"2026-05-01T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427698\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:23:11","slug":"body-of-woman-discovered-at-wexford-town-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427698\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of woman discovered at Wexford town house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock photo.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e28f89c2-2276-42e7-9d62-61b97c55c445.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stock photo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"King Street, Wexford town.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/af831eb1-c189-43db-beb2-53ae9cef89f3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">King Street, Wexford town.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: Stock photo.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777674190_844_e28f89c2-2276-42e7-9d62-61b97c55c445.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: King Street, Wexford town.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777674190_947_af831eb1-c189-43db-beb2-53ae9cef89f3.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The body of a woman in her 40s was removed from a house in the heart of Wexford town on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and The National Ambulance Service attended the scene on King Street at around 3.30 p.m., where they discovered the woman unresponsive. She was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda\u00ed immediately cordoned off the house and a full examination of the scene was carried out, while the woman\u2019s body was taken to University Hospital Waterford where a full post mortem examination is to be carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Early indications from within An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na are that foul play is not suspected at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Despite this, a garda presence continued on the Wexford town street into the evening, with a garda patrol car parked yards from the front door where the woman\u2019s remains were discovered.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"King Street, Wexford town.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777674191_341_af831eb1-c189-43db-beb2-53ae9cef89f3.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">King Street, Wexford town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a statement, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na confirmed that a female had been \u201cfound deceased in a domestic residence in Wexford town\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;A post mortem examination is due to take place on Saturday, which will determine the course of the garda investigation,\u201d it concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock photo. 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