{"id":663175,"date":"2026-10-23T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663175\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:34:12","slug":"gardai-investigate-after-body-of-man-found-on-golf-course-in-macroom-co-cork-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663175\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigate after body of man found on golf course in Macroom, Co Cork \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>have begun an investigation following the discovery of a man\u2019s body  at Macroom Golf Club in Co Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The body of the man, understood to have been in his late 20s and from the town, was found  on the golf course, west of the town, at 9.30am by a man out walking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emergency services were alerted and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have cordoned off the area and the body remains at the scene pending the arrival of a pathologist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said it was too early to know whether the man was the victim of foul play but said they will be guided by the findings of a postmortem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The area where the man\u2019s body was found is just behind Macroom GAA grounds and about 500m from the centre of town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have begun inquiries to try to establish when the dead man was last seen alive and have also begun harvesting CCTV from around Macroom town centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior investigation officer has been appointed to lead the investigation and a family liaison officer has also been named. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have appealed for anyone with any information to contact them and asked any motorists with dashcam footage of the area from around the time of the discovery of the man\u2019s body to make it available<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They say they want to hear from anyone who noticed anything unusual around Macroom Golf Club, Macroom GAA Club or the town centre between 6pm on Thursday and 9.30am on Friday to contact them at Macroom Garda station on 026-20590.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have begun an investigation following the discovery of a man\u2019s body at Macroom Golf Club in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,46,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-663175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663175","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=663175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}