Garda\u00ed are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in East Clare early today.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed were called to a location in Mountshannon at around 4.00am when a man on his 50s was discovered unresponsive and the alarm was raised.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed attended the scene and also alerted the National Ambulance Service. Units of Clare County Fire and Rescue Service from Scarriff station were also mobilised to the incident.<\/p>\n
The man was pronounced deceased at the scene and the area was preserved by Garda\u00ed for a technical examination.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s believed the man had been overnighting in a campervan in the popular lakeside area at the time.<\/p>\n
A Garda spokesperson confirmed: \u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services were alerted to an incident where a male was found deceased in Mountshannonon Co. Clare on Thursday 28th May, 2026 at approximately 4:00am.<\/p>\n
The body of the male (aged in his 50s) was removed from the scene to University Hospital Limerick .<\/p>\n
A post-mortem examination is due to take place, which will determine the course of the Garda investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in East Clare early today. Garda\u00ed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-472590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472590","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=472590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}