{"id":77477,"date":"2025-10-13T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/77477\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:19:08","slug":"cousin-pays-tribute-as-three-men-to-be-sentenced-today-over-unlawful-killing-of-tom-niland-you-dont-get-an-ending-with-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/77477\/","title":{"rendered":"Cousin pays tribute as three men to be sentenced today over unlawful killing of Tom Niland: \u2018You don\u2019t get an ending with this\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Tom was loved. It was traumatic and something you would never expect to happen in a such a rural quiet place,' neighbour Damien Kennedy said. Above, Tom Niland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/db082473-f417-4057-aeb2-cfb1600a1b18.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)\">&#8216;Tom was loved. It was traumatic and something you would never expect to happen in a such a rural quiet place,&#8217; neighbour Damien Kennedy said. Above, Tom Niland<\/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)\">Today at the Central Criminal Court the three men who stormed into the home of bachelor farmer Tom Niland and beat him to death will learn their fate.<\/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)\">The brutality of the attack on January 18, 2022 that led to the death of the \u201cgentle giant\u201d Sligo man remains a permanent scar in the hearts of his community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tom was loved. It was traumatic and something you would never expect to happen in a such a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-77477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77477","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=77477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}