{"id":550812,"date":"2026-07-15T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550812\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:56:10","slug":"renewed-appeal-over-murder-of-paul-frank-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550812\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed appeal over murder of Paul &#8216;Frank&#8217; Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh appeal for information has been issued by garda\u00ed as part of the investigation into the murder of Paul &#8216;Frank&#8217; Byrne 17 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Byrne&#8217;s remains were discovered in a wooded area by a forestry worker near Blessington, Co Wicklow, on 29 July 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old was last seen a year earlier on 15 July 2009 at Kilmartin Green in Tallaght, Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that he left the estate in a 2000 registered wine-coloured Mitsubishi Carisma accompanied by other males.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said this was the last sighting of Mr Byrne. He was reported missing by his mother at Tallaght Garda Station the following day.<\/p>\n<p>To date, five people have been arrested in connection with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact garda\u00ed in Blessington at 045 865 202, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fresh appeal for information has been issued by garda\u00ed as part of the investigation into the murder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-550812","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\/550812","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=550812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}