{"id":544573,"date":"2026-07-11T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544573\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:22:07","slug":"dublin-assault-victim-had-heart-of-gold-mourners-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544573\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin assault victim had &#8216;heart of gold&#8217;, mourners told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who died following an assault in Dublin earlier this month has been remembered as a &#8220;gentleman&#8221; with a &#8220;heart of gold&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mourners at the funeral of Anthony Long heard he was someone who had an ability to put a smile on anyone&#8217;s face and was a great friend to many people.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the funeral mass at St Luke the Evangelist Church in Mulhuddart, hundreds of people gathered outside Mr Long&#8217;s home on Parslickstown Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Many wore Liverpool soccer jerseys as a tribute to him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of Anthony Long who died after an assault in Mulhuddart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024addc-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAnthony Long died on Sunday 5 July<\/p>\n<p>Mr Long grew up on Parslickstown Drive and had moved back to his family home in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>His 11 siblings have been left devasted by his death, which garda\u00ed are continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Mr Long attended a gathering at a house close to his on the morning of 3 July when a confrontation broke out and he was attacked by a number of people.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to hospital where he died last Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who died following an assault in Dublin earlier this month has been remembered as a &#8220;gentleman&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-544573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544573","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=544573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}