{"id":726684,"date":"2026-06-10T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726684\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:04:13","slug":"neale-daniher-live-stream-of-state-funeral-service-for-australian-football-great-and-mnd-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726684\/","title":{"rendered":"Neale Daniher: Live stream of state funeral service for Australian football great and MND ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Neale Daniher is being honoured at a state funeral service at the MCG following an inspirational life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Australian football great passed away last month at age 65, with his battle against what he termed \u2018The Beast\u2019 &#8211; motor neurone disease &#8211; capturing the hearts of the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Daniher co-founded the FightMND charity and turned the annual King\u2019s Birthday match into one of the country\u2019s biggest fundraising events, with the Big Freeze helping raise money and awareness to take on the scourge of the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The former Essendon defender and Melbourne coach will be remembered at the memorial, beginning at 11am WA time and taking place at the home of football just two days after the most recent Big Freeze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Watch the service in the player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neale Daniher is being honoured at a state funeral service at the MCG following an inspirational life. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[638,64,63,596,588,85],"class_list":["post-726684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}