{"id":274988,"date":"2026-01-09T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274988\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:03:08","slug":"suspected-murder-suicide-as-bodies-of-father-son-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274988\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected murder suicide as bodies of father, son found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed are investigating the deaths of a father and son whose bodies were discovered at separate homes in Dublin in a suspected case of murder suicide.<\/p>\n<p>They have been named as Wayne O&#8217;Reilly, aged 48, and his 11-year-old son Ois\u00edn.<\/p>\n<p>They had been reported missing for a time last year before being discovered safe and well.<\/p>\n<p>Tusla has confirmed that the young boy was known to the child and family agency.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed suspect the child died violently and that the man may have subsequently taken his own life.<\/p>\n<p>However, they stressed that the results of post-mortem examinations will assist in determining the course of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p alt=\"Suspected murder suicide as bodies of father and son found\" class=\"tpe\" data-description=\"\" data-embed=\"rte-player\" data-id=\"22573168\" data-ot-category=\"C0004\" data-title=\"\">We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.<a class=\"blocked-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/dublin\/2026\/0108\/1552112-dublin-deaths\/javascript:void(0);\" onclick=\"OneTrust.ToggleInfoDisplay()\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manage Preferences<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services were first called to a house in Cherry Orchard in Ballyfermot at around 8.30am this morning, where the man&#8217;s body was found in the back garden.<\/p>\n<p>In follow-up inquiries, the body of the boy was discovered at a house on Lealand Road in the Bawnogue area of Clondalkin.<\/p>\n<p>Both homes have been preserved for forensic examination by the Garda Technical Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the man was taken from the scene in Ballyfermot to the city morgue for a post-mortem.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of the boy were removed from the house in Clondalkin this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garda\u00ed at the scene in Cherry Orchard, Ballyfermot, where the body of a man in his 40s was found\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0023b65d-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nGarda\u00ed at the scene in Cherry Orchard, Ballyfermot<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is being led by a senior investigating officer.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have not issued an appeal for witnesses or information.<\/p>\n<p>Tusla said that the boy was not in the care of the State.<\/p>\n<p>However, he and his family were known to the child and family agency.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A member of An Garda Technical Bureau outside a property\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0023b66f-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe body of an 11-year-old boy was discovered in Clondalkin<\/p>\n<p>A group of people who knew him formed a guard of honour as the ambulance carrying his remains left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education and Youth said the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) is providing support and advice to staff and the community at the boy&#8217;s school, where he was believed to have been in fifth class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating the deaths of a father and son whose bodies were discovered at separate homes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274989,"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-274988","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\/115862215348557720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274988","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=274988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}