{"id":272074,"date":"2026-01-30T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272074\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:55:10","slug":"laois-town-mourns-the-loss-of-local-musician-after-tragic-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272074\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois town mourns the loss of local musician after tragic road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tony Kavanagh from Abbeyleix, Laois. Photo: RIP.ie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/07ae2502-fa1d-4686-8828-9d71a229722e.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)\">Tony Kavanagh from Abbeyleix, Laois. Photo: RIP.ie<\/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)\">Abbeyleix town is mourning the loss of local musician Jeremiah Anthony (Tony) Kavanagh who passed away on Wednesday evening following a road traffic accident.<\/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)\">Aged in his seventies, Mr Kavanagh from Thornberry, Abbeyleix suffered fatal injuries after he was struck by a car while walking near SuperValu in the town centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Kavanagh from Abbeyleix, Laois. Photo: RIP.ie Abbeyleix town is mourning the loss of local musician Jeremiah Anthony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,5657,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-272074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-louise-hickey","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\/272074","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=272074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}