{"id":201365,"date":"2025-12-20T04:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201365\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:49:17","slug":"huge-sadness-in-wexford-at-sudden-death-of-political-activist-cinnamon-blackmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201365\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge sadness in Wexford at sudden death of political activist Cinnamon Blackmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cinnamon passed away suddenly in her home on Tuesday, December 16 and will be sadly missed by her son Tom, treasured friends Muireann and Sarah, her friends and neighbours and Tom&#8217;s dad Ken and his family Avril, Barry, Kerrie and Amy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cinnamon was widely known for her interest in politics, and for running in the 2019 local elections in Wexford. During her time involved in politics, Cinnamon campaigned against the scale-back of health services and lack of affordable accommodation in Gorey and nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With a background as a carer for her son who is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Cinnamon was involved with Gorey&#8217;s Family Resource Centre and had been involved with Wexford Mental Health Warriors and Gorey&#8217;s Together for Yes campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She also set up a candlelight vigil for the women affected by the CervicalCheck, the Hepatitis C scandal, and for women left suffering from the consequences of episiotomies and vaginal mesh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cinnamon was very active in her community, bringing parents of special needs children together for support, co-starting a special needs play group as well as fundraising events for a number of local charities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cathaoirleach of Wexford County Council, Joe Sulllivan expressed his sympathies to Cinnamon\u2019s family and praised her for her advocacy for people with disabilities. \u201cI would like to send condolences to her family, and all who are affected by her untimely passing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIt\u2019s very sad to hear of the passing of Cinnamon at such a young age, a young woman of conviction and held opinions very strongly and worked hard for others not so fortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Her remains will be reposing at Murphy&#8217;s Funeral Home, The Avenue on Sunday, December 21 from 4pm, a Celebration of Life Service will take place at 6pm in Murphy&#8217;s Funeral Home. Cremation will take place privately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cinnamon&#8217;s son and friends would like to thank everyone for their support and kindness at this sad time and are grateful for people to express messages of sympathy on the Condolence book on Rip.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The family has asked for no flowers to be delivered and if donations are desired, they can be directed to the Saoirse Unit, St. Aidan&#8217;s Day Care Centre, Market Square, Gorey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cinnamon passed away suddenly in her home on Tuesday, December 16 and will be sadly missed by her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11711,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-201365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alan-white","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201365","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=201365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}