{"id":661780,"date":"2026-10-22T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661780\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:10:08","slug":"gardai-await-post-mortem-results-of-couple-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661780\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed await post-mortem results of couple found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garda\u00ed are awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations on the bodies of a man and a woman found dead in Bray to help determine the circumstances surrounding their deaths.<\/p>\n

Bridgid ‘Biddy’ O Brien and her partner James McGinn were found dead at their home in the Cois Cairn estate yesterday morning.<\/p>\n

State Pathologist Dr Sally Anne Collis carried out the post-mortems on the bodies of the couple as the forensic examination of their home in Bray continued.<\/p>\n

Ms O’Brien’s body did not show any signs of violence, and she may have been in the house for some time before her body was discovered, possibly by her partner, who subsequently sustained what are believed to be knife wounds and died violently.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed do not believe anyone else was involved in their deaths.<\/p>\n

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\nGarda\u00ed at the scene yesterday where two bodies were discovered at a house in Cois Cairn<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed stress that they are keeping an open mind, following all lines of inquiry, and are treating the case as a tragedy at this stage.<\/p>\n

The couple lost their two children, four-year-old Jordan and two-year-old Holly, along with Ms O’Brien’s cousin and her child in a house fire in Clondalkin nine years ago and had been dealing with the pain and grief since<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations on the bodies of a man and a woman found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-661780","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\/661780","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=661780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}