MAN DIES ON FERRY

A FATHER-OF-FIVE died suddenly after boarding a Stena Line ferry to Holyhead.

Jon Morley was travelling with his son and daughter to Liverpool to visit friends in the city on April 8 when the tragedy happened around 20 minutes into the journey from Dublin.

The 52-year-old’s family described his death as “completely out of the blue” and said he was seemingly “fit and healthy”.

Mr Morley, who had lived in Liverpool for more than a decade, was described as a “family man at heart”. He leaves behind four sons and a daughter.

Brother-in-law Dave Herron said: “He was living in Dublin after spending many years in Liverpool and he was bringing his two children to visit friends in Liverpool on the Stena Line, and he was feeling a bit tired so he sort of decided to have a sleep.”

Mr Herron said Mr Morley’s daughter, who is in her early teens, tried to wake her dad up when she discovered he had died in his sleep.

The results of a postmortem examination, carried out by a coroner in North Wales, found he had died as a result of a heart attack and heart failure.

Mr Herron has set up a Gofundme page with the hope of helping the family to cover the costs of Mr Morley’s funeral once he has been repatriated to Ireland.

Paying tribute, Mr Herron said: “He was a good guy, family-orientated.

“In his younger years he was the life and soul of the party but as you get older you [are not] the life and soul of the party.”

He added: “He was one of those guys that if he could help you out he would.

“It came completely out of the blue. He seemed fit and healthy. “[The family] are absolutely devastated.”