{"id":535971,"date":"2026-07-06T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535971\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:52:11","slug":"laois-community-in-shock-over-fatal-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535971\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois Community In Shock Over Fatal Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 6 July 2026 12:24\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/62fbbba801e8c.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            A woman in her 50s is dead after yesterday&#8217;s incident.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Local people are in shock this morning after the fatal assault of a woman in Laois yesterday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services found the woman who was aged in her 50s when they were called to a house on Church St. in Portlaoise shortly after midday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A man aged in his 70s was arrested at the scene and is now being questioned by Gardai. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gardai are appealing for witnesses to contact Portlaoise Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p>Independent Laois TD Brian Stanley says it&#8217;s a tragic situation: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s too many women dying due to violent crimes&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to Laois TD Brian Stanley as emergency services found the body of a woman who was aged in her 50s on Church St. in Portlaoise shortly after midday yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Rep says society needs to get a handle on this:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 6 July 2026 12:24 A woman in her 50s is dead after yesterday&#8217;s incident. Local people are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3279,319,42,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,40,38,41,39,59],"class_list":["post-535971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-headlines","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535971","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=535971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}