{"id":397520,"date":"2026-03-22T02:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/397520\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:35:22","slug":"singer-dolores-keane-receives-emotional-farewell-in-her-beloved-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/397520\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Dolores Keane receives emotional farewell in her beloved Galway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The legendary Irish folk singer passed away on March 16, aged 72\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dolores Keane\u2019s son Joseph (second from left) and her daughter Tara (with flowers) arrive for the funeral of their mother and sister Dolores Keane at Kilcoona church. Photo: Ray Ryan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9b444937-6815-40a1-bd13-e2055be044a6.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)\">Dolores Keane\u2019s son Joseph (second from left) and her daughter Tara (with flowers) arrive for the funeral of their mother and sister Dolores Keane at Kilcoona church. Photo: Ray Ryan<\/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)\">Revered folk singer Dolores Keane\u2019s funeral mass remembered a \u201cwonderful ambassador\u201d for Irish culture and tradition as she was laid to rest in her native Galway.<\/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)\">On Friday afternoon, gifts representing her love of family, music and her homeland of Caherlistrane were carried to the altar of St Patrick and St Cuana Corner Chapel, her parish church in Co Galway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legendary Irish folk singer passed away on March 16, aged 72 Dolores Keane\u2019s son Joseph (second from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[1921,18,117,19,17,21321,1874],"class_list":{"0":"post-397520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-catherine-connolly","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-joseph-murray","14":"tag-michael-d-higgins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116270499701670296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397520","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=397520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}