{"id":534499,"date":"2026-07-05T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534499\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:22:08","slug":"woman-50s-found-dead-after-assault-in-co-laois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534499\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 50s, found dead after assault in Co Laois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman aged in her 50s has been found dead following a fatal assault in Co Laois.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at a house at Church Street, near Main Street, in Portlaoise at around 12.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>A man aged in his 70s was arrested at the scene and he is being held at Portlaoise Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p>The State Pathologist has been notified and a post-mortem examination will be arranged.<\/p>\n<p>The scene is currently preserved for technical examination.<\/p>\n<p>A Senior Investigating Officer has been appointed to lead the investigation and an incident room has been established at Portlaoise Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage who were travelling in the area this afternoon to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman aged in her 50s has been found dead following a fatal assault in Co Laois. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-534499","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\/534499","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=534499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}