{"id":76265,"date":"2025-10-12T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76265\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:32:07","slug":"gardai-expect-to-launch-murder-inquiry-after-man-40s-dies-in-assault-in-co-cork-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76265\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed expect to launch murder inquiry after man (40s) dies in assault in Co Cork \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are expecting to launch a murder inquiry once they receive the results of a postmortem examination after a man died following an assault in north Cork early on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, who was assaulted just outside his house in Doneraile village, some 13km from Mallow, has been named locally as 44-year-old father of four Barry Daly, who worked as a postman in Mallow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed believe Mr Daly was attacked by men armed with a golf club after they followed him and his teenage son some 750m from the centre of Doneraile village to their home at Rockview Terrace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood the Dalys had been socialising in Eily\u2019s bar in the centre of the village earlier in the night after Doneraile had beaten Ballyclough in the North Cork Junior B hurling final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Garda\u00ed believe there was a row outside the bar as the Dalys were leaving at about 1am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The emergency services were alerted following the assault on Mr Daly as the assailants fled on foot. A team of paramedics were quickly on the scene but were unable to resuscitate him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Mr Daly was pronounced dead at the scene at about 2am and garda\u00ed cordoned off the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Garda\u00ed recovered a golf club,  which has been removed for a forensic examination by garda technical experts for DNA or fingerprint evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Assistant state pathologist Dr Margot Bolster carried out a preliminary examination of Mr Daly\u2019s body at the scene before it was removed to Cork University Hospital for a postmortem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dr Bolster is due to begin her postmortem on Mr Daly on Monday and garda\u00ed expect it to confirm that he died a violent death and will then formally upgrade their investigation to a murder inquiry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Garda\u00ed are looking for a number of suspects, all believed to be in their late teens or early 20s and from the Doneraile area, but no arrests have been made and inquiries are continuing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Detectives have begun canvassing the area for CCTV footage and they have begun door-to-door inquiries to see if any one witnessed either the assault on the street or the earlier row in the pub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior investigating officer has been appointed to lead the investigation, and a family liaison officer has also been assigned to provide support to the family of the deceased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are expecting to launch a murder inquiry once they receive the results of a postmortem examination after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,46,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-76265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-cork","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76265","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=76265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}