{"id":201792,"date":"2025-11-26T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201792\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:34:08","slug":"man-who-died-at-tayto-plant-was-a-married-father-of-two-from-co-meath-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201792\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died at Tayto plant was a married father-of-two from Co Meath \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2025\/11\/25\/employee-dies-following-incident-at-tayto-plant-in-co-meath\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2025\/11\/25\/employee-dies-following-incident-at-tayto-plant-in-co-meath\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">who died in an incident at the Tayto plant<\/a> in Ashbourne, Co Meath, was a married father of two from Duleek, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\">Meath<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Michael (Mickey) Herron (60) was an employee of an independent potato supplier and died after a fatal incident at the large Tayto plant on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Herron is \u201csadly missed by his heartbroken family, his beloved wife Ann, son Dylan, daughter Sophie, brothers Jim and Garret, sisters Martina and Nicola, mother-in-law Nan Cudden, brothers-in-law, sisters in law, aunts, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends,\u201d his death notice said on Rip.ie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Health and Safety Authority has said it is aware of the incident and is conducting an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Tuesday, Tayto said it was working closely with all parties including the Health &amp; Safety Authority. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe safety and wellbeing of all who attend on our site is our highest priority, and we are committed to supporting any investigations into [the] tragic incident,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Go Fund Me page has been set up to allow people lend support to Mr Herron\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cLet\u2019s surround the Herrons with the support they need and show them they\u2019re not alone,\u201d says a message on the page, which had raised \u20ac5,794 by Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Funeral arrangements have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2025\/11\/25\/employee-dies-following-incident-at-tayto-plant-in-co-meath\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Employee dies following incident at Tayto plant in Co MeathOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who died in an incident at the Tayto plant in Ashbourne, Co Meath, was a married&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,16037,19,17,11,12,15,16,1873,5,43026,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-201792","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-health-and-safety-authority","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-meath","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-tayto","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115617914109983585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201792","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=201792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}