{"id":198150,"date":"2025-11-24T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/198150\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:12:08","slug":"body-found-in-kildare-reservoir-following-serious-assault-on-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/198150\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Kildare reservoir following serious assault on woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed have said they do not believe anyone else was involved in an incident in which an assaulted woman was taken from a burning house in Kildare and a man&#8217;s body was later found in a nearby reservoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services and garda\u00ed were called to a house in Oaklawn West, Leixlip, where a house fire was extinguished shortly after 6am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> A woman in her 50s was treated by emergency services and taken to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The scene is being preserved for a technical examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Garda spokesperson said: &#8220;The body of a male, aged in his 50s, was later recovered from the Leixlip Reservoir, Co. Kildare by the Garda Water Unit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed either incident to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Anyone who was in the areas of Oaklawn West, Leixlip, the N4 and the Leixlip Reservoir between 5.30am and 8am and who may have video footage (including dash-cam) are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Anyone with any information is asked to contact Leixlip Garda Station on (01) 666 7800, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have said they do not believe anyone else was involved in an incident in which an assaulted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[78269,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-198150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-violence-against-women","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115606503057877190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198150","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=198150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}