{"id":462807,"date":"2026-05-23T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462807\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:58:11","slug":"gardai-ask-public-not-to-share-footage-of-fatal-blanchardstown-assault-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462807\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed ask public not to share footage of fatal Blanchardstown assault on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed have asked the public not to share footage of a serious assault which led to the death of a man in north west Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Coughlan died in hospital on Wednesday, following the attack which took place in Blanchardstown on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Two teenage boys were charged in connection with the incident and appeared before the courts on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said: \u201cOut of respect for the deceased and his family and as this matter is before the courts, we are asking members of the public not to share this footage on social media platforms or messaging apps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They have also asked for anyone who travelled along Mill Lane between 4pm and 5pm on Sunday to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>A crowdfunding page set up to support the 37-year-old\u2019s family has received over 20,000 euro in donations.<\/p>\n<p>The page describes how, in \u201dan incredible final act of kindness and generosity\u201d, Coughlan\u2019s organs were donated which \u201creflects the caring and selfless person he was\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have asked the public not to share footage of a serious assault which led to the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-462807","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\/462807","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=462807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}