{"id":592970,"date":"2026-08-14T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592970\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:26:09","slug":"man-dies-after-serious-assault-in-wheatfield-prison-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592970\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after serious assault in Wheatfield Prison \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man (39)  has died following a serious assault in Wheatfield Prison in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\">Dublin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An investigation is under way into the man\u2019s death shortly before midnight on Thursday, after he was assaulted in his cell, which he was sharing with another inmate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are awaiting a postmortem examination to determine the direction of their investigation. It is understood investigators are examining whether a bladed weapon was used in the assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, who was from west Dublin, was serving a sentence of three years and nine months. He was sentenced in Dublin in February after pleading guilty to two counts of possession of drugs for sale or supply. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-prison-service\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-prison-service\/\">Irish Prison Service<\/a> said it could \u201cconfirm a death in custody at Wheatfield Prison on August 13th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAll deaths in custody are investigated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-prison-service\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-prison-service\">Irish Prison Service<\/a>, the Inspector of Prisons and An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, where circumstances warrant,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe Irish Prison Service wish to express our condolences to the deceased\u2019s family and friends. Next of kin have been informed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said they were \u201cinvestigating all circumstances\u201d surrounding the man\u2019s death and have assigned a senior investigating officer to the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man (39) has died following a serious assault in Wheatfield Prison in Dublin. An investigation is under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,615,42,11183,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-592970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-dublin","tag-headlines","tag-irish-prison-service","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592970","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=592970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}