A man in his 30s is continuing to be questioned by garda\u00ed in connection with the fatal assault of a local businessman in his 60s in Donegal.<\/p>\n
Emergency services responded to reports of an assault at a home outside the town of Ard an R\u00e1tha in the early hours of yesterday morning and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
He has been named as well-known local businessman, auctioneer and publican Stephen McCahill.<\/p>\n
The man in his 30s was arrested at a second location and is being detained at a garda station in Co Donegal.<\/p>\n
A father of two, Mr McCahill was named as Donegal Person of the Year in 2016.<\/p>\n
He stood as an Independent candidate in Donegal South West in the 2011 General Election.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone with information to contact Ballyshannon Garda Station on 071 9858 530, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n
Local TD Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher has paid tribute to Mr McCahill.<\/p>\n
He praised Mr McCahill for his “involvement in the community and voluntary efforts across southwest Donegal”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s is continuing to be questioned by garda\u00ed in connection with the fatal assault…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-270079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270079","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=270079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}