Gardaí investigating the murder of 51-year-old Siobhan Stapleton in Kilkenny last Friday arrested a man in his 30s this afternoon.
The man was arrested in the Thomastown area and is being held at Thomastown Garda station under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.
Mrs Stapleton, a married mother of five, was found at her house in Kilfane in Thomastown with serious injuries last Friday afternoon.
She was later pronounced dead as she was being transferred to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
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A murder investigation began after a postmortem was carried out on the body last Saturday.
More than one thousand mourners attended Mrs Stapleton's funeral at St Kieran’s Church in Tullaherin this morning.