An investigation is under way following the discovery of a woman’s body in Co Waterford.<\/p>\n
The body of the woman, believed to be aged in her 80s, was discovered at a house in a rural area at Ardsallagh near Youghal Bridge.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed were alerted shortly after 2pm and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene, which remains preserved for forensic examination.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have said that they are investigating all of the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n
A senior investigating officer has been appointed to lead the investigation and an incident room has been established at Dungarvan Garda Station.<\/p>\n
A Garda Family Liaison Officer has also been appointed to support the woman’s family.<\/p>\n
The local coroner and the Office of the State Pathologist have been notified and the services of the Garda Technical Bureau have also been requested to assist with the investigation.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have said that a post-mortem examination will be arranged, the results of which will assist them in determining the course of their inquiries.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have also appealed for any witnesses to come forward and contact them.<\/p>\n
They particularly want to speak to anyone who was in the Ardsallagh or Youghal Bridge areas in recent days. <\/p>\n
Road users with camera footage, including dash-cam recordings from the area, have also been urged to come forward.<\/p>\n
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Dungarvan Garda Station at 058 848 600 or the Garda Confidential Line at 1800 666 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is under way following the discovery of a woman’s body in Co Waterford. The body of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-501450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501450","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=501450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}