{"id":553556,"date":"2026-07-17T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553556\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:06:08","slug":"male-teenager-dies-following-serious-assault-in-navan-last-month-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553556\/","title":{"rendered":"Male teenager dies following serious assault in Navan last month \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A teenager has died almost a month after he was seriously assaulted at a bar in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/navan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/navan\/\">Navan<\/a>, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\">Meath<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The male in his late teens suffered serious injuries during the assault at the Watergate Bar and Kitchen in Watergate Street on June 21st. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The victim was conveyed to Drogheda Hospital and subsequently Beaumont Hospital for treatment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was pronounced dead on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A postmortem examination has been completed but the results are not being released for operational reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Arturas Mauruca (36), with an address at Clonmagadden, Navan, was charged with assault causing harm five days after the incident and appeared in Navan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/district-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/district-court\/\">District Court<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was remanded on \u20ac500 bail to appear at Trim District Court on 28th July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Conditions of bail include notification of change of address to the garda\u00ed, not to contact any witnesses by any means, surrender his passport and not to apply for travel documents and sign on at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda<\/a> station three times a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has died almost a month after he was seriously assaulted at a bar in Navan, Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,41038,5721,61,60,15949,42208,43],"class_list":["post-553556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-beaumont-hospital","tag-district-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meath","tag-navan","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553556","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=553556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}