{"id":165549,"date":"2025-11-06T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/165549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:25:10","slug":"brother-of-lynsey-obrien-who-died-in-cruise-ship-fall-carried-out-vicious-attack-on-a-surviving-sister-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/165549\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother of Lynsey O\u2019Brien, who died in cruise ship fall, carried out \u2018vicious\u2019 attack on a surviving sister, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dean O\u2019Brien outside court. Photo: Paddy Cummins)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/366f69e6-e831-456b-ad86-908fa665be19.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dean O\u2019Brien outside court. Photo: Paddy Cummins)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The brother of a girl who died when she fell off a cruise ship \u201cviciously\u201d attacked one of his surviving sisters, pulling out her hair extensions and biting her nose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dean O\u2019Brien (28) carried out the \u201cvile\u201d assault while in a \u201cspiral of trauma and addiction\u201d following the death of his sister Lynsey on a family holiday nearly 20 years ago, a court heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dean O\u2019Brien outside court. Photo: Paddy Cummins) The brother of a girl who died when she fell off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[39078,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-165549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-andrew-phelan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115501329652441176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}