{"id":26069,"date":"2025-09-17T01:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26069\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:09:06","slug":"vigil-planned-for-tipperary-man-who-died-after-incident-in-back-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26069\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil planned for Tipperary man who died after incident in back garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neighbours and friends of a man <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/munster\/arid-41705609.html\">who died over the weekend<\/a> will gather for a vigil near his home on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Murnane, from St Michael\u2019s Avenue in Tipperary town, died after an incident in the back garden of his home last Friday night at around 9.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man has been charged in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Tuesday evening, people will gather at St Michael\u2019s Avenue for prayers and to lend their support to Mr Murnane\u2019s grieving family. One of his three grown-up children has returned from abroad, ahead of funeral arrangements being made for Mr Murnane, who was in his 80s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Local parish priest Fr Eugene Everard will say prayers at the vigil. He told the  Irish Examiner that the vigil has been organised by local residents in a bid to offer support and solidarity to the Murnane family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe was a nice, quiet man,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            This is to show a bit of support for the family \u2014 we have to be there for one another.\u201d\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Murnane died at University Hospital Limerick, after being rushed there on Friday night. He remained in a critical condition at the hospital over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He had worked as a bus driver and was the driver for the Tipperary senior hurling team for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is understood that Mr Murnane\u2019s wife, Margaret, was in their home when the incident occurred in their back garden. The couple have three grown-up children and a number of grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A family liaison officer has been appointed to the family as the investigation into the incident continues. The scene was sealed off during the weekend while a forensics team examined the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed have appealed to anyone who was in the area of St Michael\u2019s Avenue between 7pm and 10pm, and has video camera footage (including dash-cam), to make it available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Tipperary Town Garda Station on 062 80670, the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbours and friends of a man who died over the weekend will gather for a vigil near his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,6999,43,1907],"class_list":["post-26069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster","tag-news","tag-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26069","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=26069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}