Community in shock after woman found dead in north Dublin
A man in his 40s has been arrested.
Representatives have said there was “great shock” in the community after the death of a woman in north Dublin.
Gardaí said the body of a woman, in her 40s, was found at a property in Melville Terrace, Finglas, shortly after 4.30am on Monday.
The woman has been named locally as Loredana Morosanu.
A man in his 40s was arrested at a different location.
Fianna Fáil councillor Keith Connolly said there was “great shock” in the community and offered his condolences to the friends and family of the dead woman.
Conor Reddy, People Before Profit councillor, said the news had had a “real resonance locally”.
He said: “I think it’s really kind of caught people, even in the couple of hours that we’ve known about it, and people are so, so shocked.”
A Garda spokesman said the scene where the woman was found had been preserved for forensic examination and a post-mortem examination would be arranged.
They said a man had been arrested at about 11am on Monday and was being detained pursuant to Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984, at a Garda station in the DMR West Division.
Gardaí appealed for information and asked for witnesses to come forward, “particularly those who were in the Melville Terrace, Dublin 11, area between 12am and 5am on the morning of Monday October 26″.