The funeral will take place next week of a \u201cdearly loved\u201d wife and mother who was attacked by a man armed with a knife close to her home in Shrewsbury Downs in Ballinlough, Cork City, last Monday night.<\/p>\n
Stella Gallagher, aged 59, died in Cork University Hospital in the aftermath of the stabbing incident in which her husband Brian was also seriously injured.<\/p>\n
Mrs Gallagher was a retired chemical engineer. She was known under her maiden name of Griffin at her workplace Eli Lilly. Her death notice reads that Mrs Gallagher is survived by her husband Brian and her children Ciara, Conor and Mark.<\/p>\n
She is also \u201csadly missed\u201d by her brother Denis, parents-in-law Val and Geraldine, brothers-in-law Alan and Mark, sisters-in-law Erika, Ann, Michele and Mary, nephews, nieces, extended family and friends.<\/p>\n
The \u201cmuch-loved mother,\u201d who is a native of Ballinspittle, Co Cork, will lie in repose at the Temple Hill Funeral Home on Boreenmanna Road in Cork from 5pm to 6pm next Monday.<\/p>\n
Her requiem mass will take place on Tuesday at 11am in the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Ballinlough. The mass will be live streamed. Burial will follow at St Michael\u2019s Cemetery in Blackrock in Cork City.<\/p>\n
One mourner in the condolences section of Rip.ie described the late Stella Gallagher as a \u201cgentle lady with a ready smile\u201d, while another said that she was a \u201cwonderful person\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The National Women\u2019s Council of Ireland has also offered its \u201cdeepest sympathies\u201d to the loved ones of Mrs Gallagher. In a statement on social media the council said \u201ctheir thoughts are especially with her husband Brian who was also seriously injured and remains in a stable condition in hospital\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, David Gallagher, with an address at Shrewsbury Downs in Ballinlough in Cork has been charged with the murder of his mother, and with assault causing harm to his father, close to the family home in Ballinlough last Monday night.<\/p>\n
Mr Gallagher, aged 25, was remanded in custody following his court appearance on Wednesday. He will appear before Cork District Court again by video link on November 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funeral will take place next week of a \u201cdearly loved\u201d wife and mother who was attacked by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-153126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}