{"id":513362,"date":"2026-06-22T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/513362\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:52:10","slug":"man-charged-with-the-murder-of-his-father-73-at-family-farm-in-co-waterford-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/513362\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with the murder of his father (73) at family farm in Co Waterford \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 45-year-old man has been charged with the murder of his 73-year-old father at their family farm in Cappagh, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\">Waterford<\/a>,in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emergency services were called to the farm of John Cashman snr (73) at Rockfield House, on April 13th. The pensioner was found injured and unresponsive. A local doctor pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His son, John Cashman jnr, with an address at an apartment on the family farm in Rockfield, appeared before a sitting of Carrick-on-Suir District Court in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\">Tipperary<\/a> on April 29th last, charged with assault causing harm to his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cashman jnr appeared before Dungarvan District Court in Waterford on Monday. Sgt Alan Hayes told Judge John O\u2019Leary that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/director-of-public-prosecutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/director-of-public-prosecutions\">Director of Public Prosecutions<\/a> had withdrawn the assault causing harm charge, with a charge of murder now being brought.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"John Cashman snr. Photograph: rip.ie\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6FSDYZGYGRFDPDI7FCD4EGUYMM.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"620\"\/>John Cashman snr. Photograph: rip.ie <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Evidence of arrest, charge and caution was given by Det <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda<\/a> Martin Keohane of Dungarvan Garda station. He said that when the murder charge was put to Cashman jnr on Monday at Dungarvan Garda station he replied: \u201cNo comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As the charge is that of murder, no bail application can be made in the case at District Court level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge remanded Cashman jnr in custody to appear before Clonmel District Court by video-link on Tuesday. He reserved the issue of legal aid after Cashman jnr informed him that he had changed his legal representation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cashman jnr also asked whether he would be remanded in custody to Cork or Limerick Prison. He was told that that was a matter for the Prison Service and the Department of Justice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cashman jnr previously told that court that he had moved back to Ireland from the UK in 2021 and set up a business restoring vintage farm machinery . <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The deceased, a married father of five, was a well known farmer who ran as an Independent candidate for Waterford County Council several years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old man has been charged with the murder of his 73-year-old father at their family farm in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,16186,61,60,43,9123,6513],"class_list":["post-513362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-director-of-public-prosecutions","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tipperary","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513362","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=513362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}