{"id":671506,"date":"2026-11-01T06:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671506\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:26:13","slug":"watchdog-investigating-following-death-of-man-in-garda-custody-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671506\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog investigating following death of man in Garda custody \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fiosru\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fiosru\/\">Fiosr\u00fa<\/a>, the <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<\/a> watchdog, has launched an investigation following the death of a man in Garda custody in Co Kildare on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, aged in his 30s, was found unresponsive at approximately 9.35am while in custody at Kildare Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed provided medical assistance at the scene, but the man was subsequently pronounced dead. The Office of the State Pathologist has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said the force is investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As required by law, the incident was referred to Fiosr\u00fa, the Office of the Police Ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fiosr\u00fa said the referral resulted from \u201can incident which involved the death of an individual in Co Kildare\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It said its investigators attended the scene, and an independent investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/10\/09\/garda-watchdog-fiosru-logs-breaches-including-laptop-left-in-dublin-taxi\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garda watchdog Fiosr\u00fa logs breaches including laptop left in Dublin taxiOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fiosr\u00fa investigations relate to incidents involving contact with garda\u00ed where a member of the public has died or been seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A spokesperson said a referral does not necessarily mean a garda or garda\u00ed have been accused of wrongdoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cInstead, it means that Fiosr\u00fa should independently investigate the incident to ascertain whether or not the act or omission of a garda or garda\u00ed may have resulted in the death of, or serious harm to, a person,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fiosr\u00fa said it could not comment further on a live investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiosr\u00fa, the Garda watchdog, has launched an investigation following the death of a man in Garda custody in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,104174,1346,61,60,3770,43],"class_list":["post-671506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-fiosru","tag-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671506","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=671506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}