{"id":495751,"date":"2026-06-12T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495751\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:55:08","slug":"arrest-as-gardai-investigate-death-of-man-in-leitrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495751\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest as garda\u00ed investigate death of man in Leitrim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with the death of a man in Co Leitrim last night.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who was aged in his 40s, was found unresponsive following reports of an incident at a house in Arderry, near Carrigallen, shortly after 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>He was treated at the scene by emergency services but pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say they are investigating &#8220;all the circumstances&#8221; surrounding the man&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>His body remains at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A senior investigating officer has been appointed to lead the investigation, while the local coroner and the Office of the State Pathologist have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>The scene has been preserved for a technical examination by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with the death of a man in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-495751","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\/495751","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=495751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}