{"id":547815,"date":"2026-07-13T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547815\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:49:09","slug":"three-family-members-found-dead-in-house-in-ballymena-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547815\/","title":{"rendered":"Three family members found dead in house in Ballymena \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three people have been found dead at a house in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ballymena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ballymena\">Ballymena<\/a>, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/antrim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/antrim\">Antrim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Police Service of Northern Ireland (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/psni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/psni\/\">PSNI<\/a>) said the three people were related and found inside the family home on the Old Cullybackey Road area of the town on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement, the PSNI said its investigation is ongoing and \u201cthere is no ongoing risk to the public\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA further update will follow in due course,\u201d the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">North Antrim MP and TUV leader Jim Allister said in a statement that the triple deaths are \u201ca tragedy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThough details remain scant, clearly there are family and friends who have suffered huge loss,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sinn F\u00e9in MLA Philip McGuigan said: \u201cMy immediate thoughts are with their wider family and friends. Their grief will be immeasurable right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAnyone with information should bring it forward to the PSNI immediately and assist with its investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Alliance MLA Sian Mulholland added: \u201cThe community in Ballymena is in shock already and my thoughts are with everyone affected by what will be an incredibly distressing time, particularly the family and friends of the deceased.\u201d \u2013 Additional reporting: PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been found dead at a house in Ballymena, Co Antrim. The Police Service of Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[76352,42,43,2443,21754,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-547815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ballymena","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547815","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=547815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}