{"id":632087,"date":"2026-09-22T04:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632087\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T04:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:14:15","slug":"pair-sent-for-trial-over-murder-and-robbery-of-alex-coughlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632087\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair sent for trial over murder and robbery of Alex Coughlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting by Tom Tuite<\/p>\n<p>Two teenagers have been sent forward for trial, accused of the robbery and murder of Alex Coughlan in Blanchardstown after he was contacted and befriended through the gay dating app Grindr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reporting by Tom Tuite Two teenagers have been sent forward for trial, accused of the robbery and murder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[199997,72,61,60,21556,16875],"class_list":["post-632087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alex-coughlan","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-murder","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632087","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=632087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}