{"id":213142,"date":"2025-12-03T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213142\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:27:11","slug":"from-pure-elation-to-devastation-longford-td-speaks-of-immense-shock-and-grief-at-losing-uncle-and-cousin-inside-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213142\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018From pure elation to devastation\u2019 \u2013 Longford TD speaks of \u2018immense shock and grief\u2019 at losing uncle and cousin inside two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miche\u00e1l Carrigy TD has spoken of his family's devastation at losing both his uncle Michael (left) and first cousin (Shane) right inside the space of 48 hours.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46c34a37-7af5-45cf-a70f-9878a9dc4d13.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)\">Miche\u00e1l Carrigy TD has spoken of his family&#8217;s devastation at losing both his uncle Michael (left) and first cousin (Shane) right inside the space of 48 hours.<\/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 government TD has revealed how his family has been plunged into the \u201cmost immense shock and grief\u201d following the deaths of his uncle and first cousin within days of one another.<\/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)\">Longford-Westmeath TD, Miche\u00e1l Carrigy, told of how his world was turned upside down within the space of 48 hours with the loss of father and son Michael and Shane Carrigy over the course of the past number of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miche\u00e1l Carrigy TD has spoken of his family&#8217;s devastation at losing both his uncle Michael (left) and first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,9522,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-213142","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-liam-cosgrove","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115655635761613917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213142","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=213142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}