A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a man who was found with serious injuries on a road in north Co Dublin earlier this month.
The man was found outside his home in Balbriggan, Co Dublin, in the early hours of Saturday, August 10th. He was taken to Beaumont Hospital by ambulance, and it was initially believed he may have sustained the injuries in a fall or other accident.
Medical staff, however, soon became concerned he had been assaulted and alerted gardaí. The man died as a result of his injuries the following day, on Sunday, August 11th.
Gardaí began an investigation and arranged for a postmortem by the Office of the State Pathologist, which indicated the man had suffered his injuries in a deliberate assault.
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He had suffered multiple blunt force trauma injuries, but there was no evidence that a weapon was used, sources said.
Gardaí said they are not releasing the results of the postmortem for operational reasons. Following the postmortem, detectives opened a murder inquiry and began interviewing witnesses.
On Tuesday, gardaí arrested a woman, aged in her forties, in the Balbriggan area on suspicion of the man’s murder. She is known to the deceased.
She is being held for questioning under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, at a Garda station in North Dublin. Gardaí say investigations are ongoing.
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