{"id":501848,"date":"2026-06-16T03:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/501848\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T03:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:54:08","slug":"gardai-investigating-after-woman-80s-found-dead-in-co-waterford-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/501848\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigating after woman (80s) found dead in Co Waterford \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garda\u00ed<\/a> have opened an investigation after a woman was found dead in west Co Waterford<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The discovery was made at a residence at Ardsallagh near Youghal Bridge on Monday afternoon. The deceased is believed to have been in her 80s. <\/p>\n

The force said the coroner and the Office of the State Pathologist had been notified and the services of the Garda Technical Bureau had been requested.<\/p>\n

A postmortem is to be carried out and the results will assist in determining the course of the investigation into the woman\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cShortly after 2pm, garda\u00ed were alerted to the discovery of the body of a woman, believed to be in her 80s, at a residential property in the rural area of County Waterford at Ardsallagh near Youghal Bridge,\u201d An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman was pronounced deceased at the scene, which is currently preserved for forensic examination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in<\/a> TD for Waterford Conor D McGuinness described the situation as \u201cdeeply sad and upsetting\u201d and appealed to members of the public who may have any information to contact garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy thoughts this evening are with the woman who has died, and with her family, friends and neighbours as they come to terms with this loss,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A senior investigating officer has been appointed to lead the investigation and an incident room has been established at Dungarvan Garda station, the statement added. A family liaison officer has also been appointed to support the woman\u2019s relatives.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses, in particular those who were in the Ardsallagh or Youghal Bridge areas in recent days, to come forward. <\/p>\n

Anyone with information or camera footage, including dashcam recordings, that could help the investigation is asked to contact Dungarvan Garda station on (058) 848600 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have opened an investigation after a woman was found dead in west Co Waterford. The discovery was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43,3415,6513],"class_list":["post-501848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sinn-fein","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501848","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=501848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}