{"id":84450,"date":"2025-10-16T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84450\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:07:10","slug":"garda-probe-launched-in-tallaght-as-suspected-human-remains-found-in-burnt-out-car-after-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84450\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda probe launched in Tallaght as suspected human remains found in burnt out car after &#8216;explosion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The car ignited in the early hours of the morning<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_CC_WATERGATE_BODY8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Gardai at the scene this afternoon in the Watergate Estate, Tallaght(Image: collinsphotos.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">Gardai are investigating after suspected human remains were found in a burnt out car in Tallaght, South Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">Dublin fire brigade and gardai rushed to the scene of the shocking incident in the Watergate Estate of Tallaght in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">There, it is understood officers found a car on fire in the driveway of a house. Members of the fire brigade put out the fire and subsequently suspected human remains were found inside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-190436.png\" alt=\"\"  \/>Join Irish Mirror&#8217;s crime and court group on WhatsApp <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Get all the big crime and court stories direct to your phone on our new WhatsApp service. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/L5Vs1ax39uZ8yz1STVB9aD\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up here<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t like our group you can leave it at any time<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">It is suspected to be the remains of a man. It is understood that gardai suspect this may be a personal tragedy incident, but officers are keeping an open mind at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">Shocked locals have told this paper how they heard an \u201cexplosion\u201d at around 1:30am in the morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">Gardai have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=39e53cb8-b266-4e33-8d00-e9f7a38f420c&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Sign up hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The car ignited in the early hours of the morningGardai at the scene this afternoon in the Watergate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43,13356,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-84450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tallaght","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84450","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=84450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}