{"id":120448,"date":"2025-10-14T01:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120448\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T01:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:28:14","slug":"family-of-retired-farmer-tom-niland-didnt-recognise-him-in-hospital-after-killers-brutal-attack-sentencing-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120448\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of retired farmer Tom Niland didn\u2019t recognise him in hospital after killers\u2019 brutal attack, sentencing told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The \u2018treasured\u2019 Sligo man died 20 months after he was set upon by a gang in January, 2022One cousin said she remembers Mr Niland in hospital \u2018struggling to breathe in pain with tears rolling down his face\u2019The family said they \u2018can only hope that some justice will be served for Tom\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Niland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/27257777-9c12-4c33-93a9-411c08469dfc.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)\">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)\">The family of a retired farmer who died 20 months after being violently attacked by a gang in his Sligo home didn&#8217;t recognise him in hospital due to the severity of his injuries.<\/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)\">A cousin of Tom Niland (75) has also told the Central Criminal Court that the three offenders, who have over 100 previous convictions between them, robbed a fit and healthy man of his independence, his freedom and ultimately his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u2018treasured\u2019 Sligo man died 20 months after he was set upon by a gang in January, 2022One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,29362,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-120448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-robin-schiller","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}