A man in his 70s remains in garda custody following the fatal assault of a woman in Co Laois on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The dead woman (55) it is understood was known to the arrested man, who is aged in his 70s.<\/p>\n
The woman, who worked in a dental practice and lived over the premises, was found in a house on Church Street in Portlaoise at 12.30 pm.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to the incident, and the woman was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n
The State Pathologist was notified, and a post-mortem examination will be arranged in due course at Midlands Hospital Portlaoise.<\/p>\n
The man was arrested at the scene and is currently detained at a station in the Garda Eastern Region under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n
The scene remains preserved for technical examination.<\/p>\n
A Senior Investigating Officer has been appointed to lead the investigation. An incident room has been established at Portlaoise Garda station.<\/p>\n
Local Independent TD Brian Stanley said: \u201cIt\u2019s a huge tragedy for this woman and a huge tragedy for her family and indeed the people in this street. We all would have known her. She was a very friendly woman, a very nice woman.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe worked in a dental practice, and lived there. We are really shocked by what has happened here and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to this incident to come forward.<\/p>\n
Anyone who was in the Church Street area on Sunday, 5th July 2026, between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm and who may have camera footage, including CCTV or dashcam, is asked to provide this footage to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Portlaoise Garda Station on 057 867 4100, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n
Garda investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 70s remains in garda custody following the fatal assault of a woman in Co…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-535555","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\/535555","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=535555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}