{"id":169228,"date":"2025-12-01T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169228\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:00:08","slug":"heartbroken-family-of-pioneering-businessman-who-died-in-workplace-accident-suffer-unimaginable-loss-of-his-father-barely-48-hours-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169228\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbroken family of pioneering businessman who died in workplace accident suffer \u2018unimaginable\u2019 loss of his father barely 48 hours later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Heartbroken family of Longford businessman killed in workplace accident suffers second \u2018unimaginable\u2019 loss days later\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Large crowds turned out to pay their respects to Longford businessman and dedicated family man, Shane Carrigy in his native Ballinalee, Co Longford yesterday.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2a8345f5-aa10-411b-9756-31bc9b581df0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Large crowds turned out to pay their respects to Longford businessman and dedicated family man, Shane Carrigy in his native Ballinalee, Co Longford yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The heartbroken family of a high-flying businessman who died in a workplace accident last week have been dealt a second \u201cunimaginable\u201d blow with the loss of his father in almost as many days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Michael Carrigy passed away on Saturday afternoon less than two days after his son lost his life in a tragic accident at his coach hire firm, Carrigy\u2019s Coaches, outside Ballinalee, Co Longford on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heartbroken family of Longford businessman killed in workplace accident suffers second \u2018unimaginable\u2019 loss days later Large crowds turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,23576,43],"class_list":["post-169228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liam-cosgrove","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169228","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=169228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}