{"id":449555,"date":"2026-05-15T03:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449555\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:13:21","slug":"woman-60s-arrested-in-relation-to-long-running-donegal-murder-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449555\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (60s) arrested in relation to long-running Donegal murder inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in her 60s has been arrested in relation to the murder of a man in Co Donegal nearly 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Burns, 27, was murdered at Donnyloop in Castlefin on February 12th, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>He received a number of gunshot wounds and was later found on a road close to Donnyloop Church. He was pronounced dead shortly before 8pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"637\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/woman-60s-arrested-in-relation-to-long-running-donegal-murder-inquiry.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Burns Murder\" data-title=\"Andrew Burns Murder\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Media\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Media\" data-credit=\"An Garda Siochana\" data-usage-terms=\"PICTURE DESK USE ONLY. NO SALES\"\/>Andrew Burns 27, who was murdered at Donnyloop in Castlefin in 2008 (An Garda Siochana)<\/p>\n<p>One person has been convicted of his murder and is serving a life sentence, but garda\u00ed have previously said they believe that a number of people were involved.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/kerry-man-who-raped-younger-brother-for-years-argues-over-evidence-given-during-trial-1899951.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/kerry-man-who-raped-younger-brother-for-years-argues-over-evidence-given-during-trial-1899951.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-criminal-courts-of-justice202603067230.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"Kerry Man Who Raped Younger Brother For Years Argues Over Evidence Given During Trial\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Kerry man who raped younger brother for years argues over evidence given during trial<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening, Garda\u00ed arrested a woman in her 60s as part of their investigation into Mr Burns\u2019 murder.<\/p>\n<p>She is being detained at a garda station in the North-West.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed continue to appeal to anyone with any information to come forward, in particular, the occupant or occupants of a red van that it is believed to have been in the Donnyloop area at around 7pm on the evening Mr Burns was murdered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 60s has been arrested in relation to the murder of a man in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-449555","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\/449555","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=449555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}