{"id":109295,"date":"2025-10-28T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:41:07","slug":"tourist-who-was-victim-of-alleged-temple-bar-assault-dies-in-uk-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109295\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist who was victim of alleged Temple Bar assault dies in UK \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">An English tourist who was allegedly assaulted following a confrontation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/temple-bar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/temple-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Temple Bar<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin<\/a> two months ago has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anthony Herron, who was aged in his 40s, was hospitalised with serious head injuries following the incident. He was later repatriated to the UK where he died last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident occurred in the early hours of the morning of August 21st in the Temple Bar Square area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda<\/a> spokesman confirmed the victim died on Saturday. He said the Garda could not comment further as the matter is now before the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Mr Herron and his wife were understood to have recently bought their first home in London. They have a three-year-old son and another baby on the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A JustGiving fundraiser set up by Herron family members to help them had raised over \u00a323,000 as of Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">An update posted on the site since his death said: \u201dThe funds received here will be put towards raising Anthony\u2019s boys in the manner he and Laura had begun and to help support them all through his loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Darragh O\u2019Brien, a 22-year-old man of no fixed address, was later in August arrested and charged with assault causing harm in relation to the incident. He remains before the courts and has yet to indicate a plea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is alleged Mr O\u2019Brien kicked the victim in the head during the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The court heard the victim left a Temple Bar pub and engaged in a verbal altercation with the accused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A physical altercation followed in which Mr O\u2019Brien allegedly launched four kicks towards the victim, one of which hit his stomach and chest area, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The victim was then allegedly kicked in the head and knocked unconscious upon falling to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was initially taken to St James\u2019s Hospital on the night of the assault but was later transferred to Beaumont Hospital to undergo emergency specialist surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An English tourist who was allegedly assaulted following a confrontation in Temple Bar in Dublin two months ago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,615,4507,42,43,38702,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-109295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-dublin-2","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-temple-bar","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}