{"id":36313,"date":"2025-09-01T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36313\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:43:15","slug":"sporting-legend-ollie-horgan-to-be-laid-to-rest-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36313\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting legend Ollie Horgan to be laid to rest today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A large contingent of friends and colleagues from across Donegal will travel to Galway today for the funeral of sporting legend Ollie Horgan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Horgan, who was 57, died on Thursday last following a brave battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>A former teacher at St Eunan\u2019s College in Letterkenny, he was a native of Galway.<\/p>\n<p>He came to Letterkenny in the late 80s to begin his teaching career and left a huge mark on many lives.<\/p>\n<p>He played for and managed Fanad United but will be especially remembered for his service to Finn Harps and the remarkable job he did at Finn Park.<\/p>\n<p>His Requiem Mass will take place at the Church of Christ the King, Salthill at 12 noon.<\/p>\n<p>He will be laid to rest in Rahoon Cemetery following his funeral mass.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting legend Ollie Horgan to be laid to rest today was last modified:  September 1st, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large contingent of friends and colleagues from across Donegal will travel to Galway today for the funeral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,11250,19,17,28185,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-36313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-funeral","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-ollie-horgan","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313","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=36313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}