{"id":534178,"date":"2026-07-05T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534178\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:34:09","slug":"man-40s-shot-dead-in-dun-laoghaire-in-dublin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534178\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 40s, shot dead in D\u00fan Laoghaire in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 40s has been shot dead in D\u00fan Laoghaire, Co Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at around 8.30am at Patrician Park on Kill Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have said that the man&#8217;s body remains at the scene, which has been preserved for a garda examination.<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem examination is due to take place and the Coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>A senior investigating officer has been appointed and an incident room has been set up at D\u00fan Laoghaire garda station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A stretch of road has been closed off in Dun Laoghaire following a fatal shooting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024a466-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have closed off some roads, including Kill Avenue and Glenageary Road Upper.<\/p>\n<p>Local road diversions have been put in place, with Dublin Bus also warning of delays to their E2 route between D\u00fan Laoighaire and Harristown.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are conducting door-to-door enquires and are appealing for witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Any road users who were travelling near Kill Avenue between 8am and 9am and may have camera footage, including dash-cam, have been asked to make it available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact D\u00fan Laoghaire Garda Station on 01 666 5000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 40s has been shot dead in D\u00fan Laoghaire, Co Dublin. The incident happened at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-534178","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\/534178","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=534178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}