{"id":163354,"date":"2025-11-28T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163354\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:13:07","slug":"longford-father-of-two-dies-in-tragic-accident-at-family-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163354\/","title":{"rendered":"Longford father-of-two dies in tragic accident at family business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Longford\u00a0father-of-two has sadly lost his life following a tragic accident earlier today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident is believed to have occurred at his family business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the location around lunchtime after the man was found critically injured as a result of an incident that occurred while he was working on a vehicle, believed to have been a bus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were swiftly on the scene however\u00a0the man was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Locals from the community in question are in shock this evening. The victim, who was in his 40&#8217;s, was married with 2 young children and was described by locals as &#8220;a pure gentleman&#8221;, &#8220;a great family man&#8221;, and &#8220;a lovely businessman who was thought highly of by his employees and customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was also described as a lifelong community man and was\u00a0very involved in local GAA having played football with his club from\u00a0underage right through to senior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gardai are continuing to investigate the incident but believe it to have been a tragic accident.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Longford\u00a0father-of-two has sadly lost his life following a tragic accident earlier today.\u00a0 The incident is believed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,3181,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-163354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-longford","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163354","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=163354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}