{"id":449208,"date":"2026-05-14T22:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449208\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:26:06","slug":"woman-arrested-in-relation-to-2008-murder-of-andrew-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449208\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested in relation to 2008 murder of Andrew Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been arrested in relation to the 2008 murder of 27-year-old Andrew Burns, who was shot dead at Donnyloop, Castlefin, Co Donegal.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who is in her 60s, is currently detained at a garda station in the north west region.<\/p>\n<p>A Family Liaison Officer (FLO) continues to support the family of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for anyone with information to come forward, in particular, the occupant or occupants of a red van that it is believed to have been in the area of Donnyloop at around 7pm on the evening of Tuesday 12 February 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Letterkenny Garda Station on 074 9167100, the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111 or any garda station.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Burns received a number of gunshot wounds and was later found on a roadway close to Donnyloop Church and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed a number of individuals were involved in his murder.<\/p>\n<p>To date, one person has been convicted of his murder and is currently serving a life sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested in relation to the 2008 murder of 27-year-old Andrew Burns, who was shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-449208","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\/449208","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=449208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}