{"id":274390,"date":"2026-01-08T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274390\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:51:06","slug":"bodies-of-man-and-boy-discovered-at-separate-homes-in-dublin-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274390\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of man and boy discovered at separate homes in Dublin | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of a man and a boy have been discovered at two separate homes in west Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a property in the Cherry Orchard area of Ballyfermot at around 8.30am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The man, in his 40s, was found dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>During follow-up inquiries, the body of a boy was found at a home in Clondalkin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-pleads-guilty-to-attempted-murder-of-army-officer-near-barracks-13491868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man pleads guilty to attempted murder of soldier<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-who-threw-boy-off-tate-modern-balcony-sentenced-for-attacking-nurses-at-broadmoor-13491936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man who threw boy off Tate Modern sentenced for attacking nurses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both locations are now subject to forensic examination, to be conducted by the Technical Bureau of the Irish police service An Garda Siochana.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner has been notified and the services of the Office of the State Pathologist have been requested.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the man has been taken to the city morgue.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the boy remained at the scene on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Post-mortem examinations were due to be arranged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bodies of a man and a boy have been discovered at two separate homes in west Dublin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274391,"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-274390","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115860516608244587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274390","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=274390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}