{"id":480511,"date":"2026-06-03T06:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480511\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:45:13","slug":"alex-coughlan-left-prone-injured-and-bloodied-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480511\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Coughlan left &#8216;prone, injured and bloodied&#8217;, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post-mortem has established that Alex Coughlan, who died after being severely injured in Blanchardstown last month, suffered \u201ctraumatic\u201d head and neck injuries, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Coughlan, who was 37, was found unconscious on May 17 on Mill Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A post-mortem has established that Alex Coughlan, who died after being severely injured in Blanchardstown last month, suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[199997,4102,42,43,207072,40,38,41,39,207073,207074],"class_list":["post-480511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alex-coughlan","tag-attack","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-prey-2","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-traumatic-injuries","tag-two-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480511","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=480511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}