{"id":495624,"date":"2026-06-12T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495624\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:06:08","slug":"brother-of-irish-sports-star-shot-dead-in-barcelona-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495624\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother of Irish sports star shot dead in Barcelona \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A brother of a well-known Irish sports star has been shot dead in Spain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 36-year-old man, who is originally from Dublin\u2019s north inner city, was killed on Carrer de Balmes in Barcelona on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police erected a large tent at the scene and began a manhunt for the gunman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Investigators said they have found the suspected murder weapon and have released CCTV images of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A local resident who lives close to the dead man\u2019s parents in Dublin said they are \u201chighly respected in the area. They really are lovely people as is his older brother who did his country proud in the sport which made him so well known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWord is spreading fast around the local community as to who the Irish man who died is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda<\/a> headquarters and the Department of Foreign Affairs have been contacted for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brother of a well-known Irish sports star has been shot dead in Spain. The 36-year-old man, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,1844,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-495624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-department-of-foreign-affairs","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495624","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=495624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}