{"id":650106,"date":"2026-08-22T03:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650106\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:29:33","slug":"irish-woman-found-dead-in-melbourne-home-man-45-arrested-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650106\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish woman found dead in Melbourne home, man (45) arrested \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Irish woman was found dead at a house in a suburb near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/melbourne\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/melbourne\/\">Melbourne<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/australia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a>, on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A statement from Victoria police said a man was arrested after the woman was found dead at a residential property at Ferntree Gully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emergency services were called to the house on Ferntree Gully Road just before 10am on Friday and located an injured woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Despite efforts to revive the woman, she was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police said the woman had yet to be identified. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man (45) was arrested nearby and remains in custody. Police said it was believed the man and woman were known to each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">9News, an Australian national news outlet, reported the man had not been charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A crime scene has been established and homicide squad detectives are attending the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800-333-000 or online at <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crimestoppersvic.com.au%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CMichael.Ross%40irishtimes.com%7C05a382f861384f418a9a08deffd24686%7Ce6c8e7dc529047f68b07209934781091%7C0%7C0%7C639229475745129396%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=sfu8HCFpH6B1Vfrq212jzoW7rzZ5WcW6rSdA9zfqZ%2FA%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crimestoppersvic.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A spokeswoman for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/department-of-foreign-affairs\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/department-of-foreign-affairs\/\">Department of Foreign Affairs<\/a> said the department was aware of this case and was providing consular assistance. \u201cAs with all consular case, the department does not comment on the details of individual cases,\u201d the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irish woman was found dead at a house in a suburb near Melbourne, Australia, on Friday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1128,9,10,8104,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,10486,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-650106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-department-of-foreign-affairs","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117137045141452400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650106","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=650106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}