{"id":594153,"date":"2026-08-15T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594153\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:02:09","slug":"man-arrested-after-inmate-death-in-wheatfield-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594153\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after inmate death in Wheatfield prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested after a prisoner died following an assault at Wheatfield Prison in Dublin on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The man in his 40s is currently detained at a garda station in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased prisoner, 39-year-old Brendan Gahan from Tallaght, was serving a sentence of two years and nine months for possession of drugs for sale or supply.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, garda\u00ed were at the prison to investigate what had been described as a violent death. <\/p>\n<p>The Irish Prison Service said that all deaths in custody are investigated by the Inspector of Prisons and garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, it said: &#8220;The Irish Prison Service wish to express our condolences to the deceased&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next of kin have been informed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a prisoner died following an assault at Wheatfield Prison in Dublin on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-594153","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\/594153","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=594153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}