A man in his 30s has died after swimming across the River Liffey following an alleged incident of assault around the War Memorial Gardens on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed in Ballyfermot said they are investigating all the circumstances surrounding a number of incidents at the War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge and on the Chapelizod Road in Dublin.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended following reports that a man had swam across the River Liffey to lands adjacent to Chapelizod Road following an alleged incident of assault around the War Memorial Gardens at approximately 10:20pm.<\/p>\n
The man was treated at the scene by personnel from the Dublin Fire Brigade before being removed by ambulance to St James\u2019 Hospital, where he subsequently passed away on Sunday.<\/p>\n
A post-mortem examination will be carried out.<\/p>\n
The investigation is being carried out under a Senior Investigating Officer.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information in relation to this incident to come forward.<\/p>\n
Any persons or road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) who were travelling in the area between the hours of 9pm to 10:45pm on Saturday are asked to make this footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Clondalkin Garda Station on 01 666 7600, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has died after swimming across the River Liffey following an alleged incident of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-477925","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\/477925","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=477925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}