The lonely death of Jamie Weldon

The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · Apr 3, 2026 · 30m

Jamie Weldon from Butlerstown in Co Waterford would have been 57 on the day his body was found, August 19th 2023. Instead, he had lain alone in his apartment for about three weeks after taking his own life. The grief of their brother’s lonely death was compounded for his family by the knowledge that, after being found, he had spent almost a week in Dublin City Morgue before his family were notified despite evidence of his identity in his home in the Iveagh Gardens sheltered housing facility. Jamie’s body had to be formally identified through matching his DNA with a sample provided by one of…