{"id":276460,"date":"2026-01-09T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/276460\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:56:07","slug":"frank-flaherty-midwest-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/276460\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Flaherty &#8211; Midwest Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gortbeg, Ballyglunin, Tuam, Co. Galway (9th January, 2026) \u2013 peacefully, surrounded by his loving family in the care of the nursing staff at University Hospital, Galway.<\/p>\n<p>Predeceased by his parents\u00a0Katie\u00a0and\u00a0Michael, his brothers\u00a0Christy,\u00a0John,\u00a0Paddy Joe\u00a0and\u00a0Benny, his sisters\u00a0Patsy,\u00a0May,\u00a0Bridgie,\u00a0Nora\u00a0and\u00a0Kathleen.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved husband of\u00a0May\u00a0and loving father to\u00a0Deirdre,\u00a0Francis,\u00a0Rena (Tierney),\u00a0Paul,\u00a0Damien\u00a0and\u00a0Nicola (Mitchell).<\/p>\n<p>Loving father-in-law to\u00a0Nicky,\u00a0Paul,\u00a0Noelle,\u00a0Darina\u00a0and\u00a0Pakie.<\/p>\n<p>Deeply missed by his adored grandchildren Kim, Francis, Conor, Kieran, Rebecca, Rachel, Ryan, Anton, Lainey and\u00a0Nathan and great-grandchildren\u00a0Levi,\u00a0Izzy\u00a0and\u00a0Cillian.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly missed by his brothers\u00a0Eddie,\u00a0Mattie,\u00a0Ger,\u00a0Stephen,\u00a0Dett\u00a0and his sister\u00a0Julia, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, neighbours and friends.<\/p>\n<p>May Frank\u2019s Gentle Soul Rest in Eternal Peace.<\/p>\n<p>Frank will repose in Mannion\u2019s Funeral Home, Abbeyknockmoy (H54 RW94) this Sunday evening, January 11th 2026 from 4:00pm until 6:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>Requiem Mass on Monday, January 12th 2026 at 12:00 noon in St Mary\u2019s Church, Killererin (H54 WY44) followed by burial afterwards in The Good Shepherd Cemetery, Killererin.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral Mass will be live-streamed at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtv.ie\/killererin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.churchtv.ie\/killererin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>House Private by Request.<\/p>\n<p>Family Flowers only, Donations if desired to Cro\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gortbeg, Ballyglunin, Tuam, Co. Galway (9th January, 2026) \u2013 peacefully, surrounded by his loving family in the care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-276460","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-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115866906333902070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276460","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=276460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}