{"id":68060,"date":"2025-09-16T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68060\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:23:11","slug":"heartfelt-tributes-to-lovely-lad-murdered-in-lisburn-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68060\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartfelt tributes to \u2018lovely lad\u2019 murdered in Lisburn \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 42-year-old man murdered in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/lisburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/lisburn\">Lisburn<\/a> in the early hours of Monday morning has been named as Barry Furfey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mr Furfey lived in an apartment in the Wardsborough Road area of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An ambulance was called to the apartment complex at around 1am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mr Furfey was taken to hospital with serious injuries and later passed away.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/former-owner-says-hes-been-excluded-from-open-day-at-historic-mill-where-he-spent-his-life-living-K73HPTB2DFEBPOH6TXZGHMC5Z4\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Former owner says he&#x2019;s been excluded from open day at historic mill where he spent his life living\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KCZEQ4ZGMJDLLMGMGYT2ZM4SFA.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/ireland-international-rugby-star-conor-murray-moving-to-derry-following-retirement-announcement-LUD7SROLU5CLXKUXVRMRBAV3KY\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ireland international rugby star Conor Murray moving to Derry following retirement announcement \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JM3SMURBAVNGND3MPMFCJBJDMQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 38-year-old woman and 37-year-old man have both been arrested on suspicion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/murder\">murder<\/a> and remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tributes have been paid to the deceased in the hours following his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Posting online one woman described Mr Furfey as a \u201clovely lad\u201d who would\u2019ve \u201cdone anything for us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Others described his passing as \u201cawful news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Speaking about the deceased, one woman posted: \u201cSo so sad not a violent bone in his body. Very kind hearted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Councillor Declan Lynch said: \u201cFirstly, my thoughts go out to the victim\u2019s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is an extremely difficult time for them. And I think I would urge everyone to be mindful and respectful of that because there is a grieving family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s reported that there is two people in custody and I would urge people to let the police do their job and not to speculate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s also important to remember that there\u2019s a community in complete shock and grief. I don\u2019t think any community expects this to come to their door and to their street so it\u2019s important to be mindful again that there is a community in complete shock and fear<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI would just urge anyone with any information at all to get in contact with the PSNI to help them with their investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The PSNI has launched a murder investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detective Inspector Jill Angus urged anybody with information to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She said: \u201cMy thoughts are with Barry\u2019s family, who are left to try to come to terms with their devastating loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cTwo people \u2013 a 37-year-old man and 38-year-old woman \u2013 arrested yesterday, 15 September, remain in custody at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur enquiries are continuing, and I am keen to take the opportunity to reiterate my appeal to anyone with information to contact detectives on 101. Please quote reference number 29 of 15\/09\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Information can also be provided to the independent charity Crimestoppers, with total anonymity, on 0800 555 111 or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppers-uk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppers-uk.org\">www.crimestoppers-uk.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 42-year-old man murdered in Lisburn in the early hours of Monday morning has been named as Barry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,47528,15,16,3800,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-68060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","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-lisburn","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-murder","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68060","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=68060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}