{"id":591363,"date":"2026-08-12T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591363\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:10:08","slug":"man-who-died-after-getting-into-difficulty-in-cavan-river-named-locally-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591363\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died after getting into difficulty in Cavan river named locally \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man who drowned after he fell into the water at the Annalee river in Ballyhaise, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cavan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cavan\/\">Cavan<\/a>, has been named locally as James Anthony Fanthorpe McHugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services received reports of a person in the Annalee river at Drumaraw, Ballyhaise, at 8.30pm on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is believed the man, aged in his 20s and from Ballyhaise, was fishing when he fell in to the river and got into difficulty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said  emergency personnel attempted to revive him after his body was recovered from the water but he was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> His body has been removed to Cavan Mortuary where a postmortem will be arranged at Our Lady\u2019s National Hospital Navan, garda\u00ed said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A file will also be prepared for the coroner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who drowned after he fell into the water at the Annalee river in Ballyhaise, Co Cavan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,15218,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-591363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cavan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591363","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=591363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}