{"id":478328,"date":"2026-06-02T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478328\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:48:10","slug":"man-who-swam-across-liffey-after-alleged-assault-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478328\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who swam across Liffey after alleged assault dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is under way following the death of a man in his 30s who swam across the River Liffey following a reported assault in Dublin&#8217;s War Memorial Gardens on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have said they are investigating &#8220;all the circumstances&#8221; surrounding the incident, which happened at around 10.20pm, and have appealed for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>The man was treated by fire brigade personnel after swimming across the river to lands adjacent to Chapelizod Road, following a reported assault in the vicinity of the gardens in Islandbridge.<\/p>\n<p>He was then brought to St James\u2019 Hospital, where he died yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have said no cause of death has yet been determined, and that a post-mortem examination will determine the course of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>They have appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are in particular appealing for anyone who was travelling in the area, or any road users with dashcam footage, between 9pm and 10.45pm on Saturday to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with 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":"An investigation is under way following the death of a man in his 30s who swam across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-478328","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\/478328","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=478328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}