{"id":316571,"date":"2026-02-25T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316571\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:01:07","slug":"andrew-heffernan-husband-to-dunnes-stores-matriarch-margaret-has-died-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316571\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Heffernan, husband to Dunnes Stores matriarch Margaret, has died \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dr Andrew Heffernan, husband to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dunnes-stores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dunnes-stores\/\">Dunnes Stores<\/a> matriarch Margaret Heffernan, died on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Heffernan, who previously worked as a consultant endocrinologist at the Blackrock Clinic, died \u201cpeacefully, surrounded by his loving family\u201d, in the care of the doctors and nurses of St Vincent\u2019s Private Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin, according to his death notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was described as the \u201cbeloved husband of Margaret and much-loved father of Anne, Michael, Andrew and Bernard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It said he will be \u201csadly missed by his wife, children, grandchildren, great-grandson, daughters-in-law, son-in-law, sisters Ellen and Anne, sisters-in-law and extended family\u201d. His funeral took place on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A number of people left tributes to him on bereavements website Rip.ie, which is owned by The Irish Times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Evan Arkwright, racing and sponsorship manager at the Curragh Racecourse in Co Kildare, said his thoughts were with the Heffernan family \u201cat this very sad time for them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAndrew was always a very welcome visitor to the racecourse both as a trainer and as an owner and the huge achievements of the HOS syndicate must have given him great pleasure in recent times,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Margaret Heffernan (83) is the eldest of six children born to Ben Dunne snr and his wife Nora Dunne (n\u00e9e Maloney), who has transformed Dunnes Stores into the retailer it is today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dunnes Stores is currently the leading grocer in Ireland, holding a 24.8 per cent market share. It maintains the top spot, closely followed by Tesco (24.4 per cent \u2013 24.8 per cent) and SuperValu (19.3 per cent \u2013 20.5 per cent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Andrew Heffernan, husband to Dunnes Stores matriarch Margaret Heffernan, died on Sunday. Heffernan, who previously worked as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,28995,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-316571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dunnes-stores","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316571","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=316571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}