{"id":227949,"date":"2026-01-05T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227949\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:36:10","slug":"its-just-devastating-glowing-tributes-to-longford-dad-who-died-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227949\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s just devastating&#8217; &#8211; Glowing tributes to Longford dad who died in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Francis Kelly lost his life in a three-vehicle crash between Longford town and Edgeworthstown on Saturday at around 7pm. \u00a0\n            <\/p>\n<p>Tributes are being paid to the young Longford father who died in a crash at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Kelly lost his life in a three-vehicle crash between Longford town and Edgeworthstown on Saturday at around 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old is the first person to die on Irish roads this year.<\/p>\n<p>Local councillor Uruemu Adejinmi says glowing tributes have been paid to him online:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francis Kelly lost his life in a three-vehicle crash between Longford town and Edgeworthstown on Saturday at around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9272,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-227949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crash","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227949","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=227949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}