{"id":232594,"date":"2026-01-07T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232594\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:38:09","slug":"a-gentle-giant-who-left-a-lasting-mark-family-pays-tribute-to-limerick-lion-pa-odwyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232594\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A gentle giant who left a lasting mark\u2019 \u2013 family pays tribute to \u2018Limerick Lion\u2019 Pa O\u2019Dwyer"},"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 internationally renowned strongman died suddenly on January 3, aged 40\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The late Patrick (Pa) O'Dwyer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/93dc1b69-e289-4db3-b208-16d99057b1bc.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)\">The late Patrick (Pa) O&#8217;Dwyer<\/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)\">Hundreds of mourners gathered at St Mary\u2019s Church in Rathkeale this morning for the funeral mass of Patrick (Pa) O\u2019Dwyer, the internationally-renowned strongman who died suddenly on January 3, 2026, at just 40 years of age.<\/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)\">Family, friends, members of the strongman community and locals filled the church to remember the man known worldwide as the \u201cLimerick Lion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The internationally renowned strongman died suddenly on January 3, aged 40 The late Patrick (Pa) O&#8217;Dwyer Hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-232594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232594","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=232594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}