Feenone, Carrowniskey, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. February 15th 2026 : Peacefully in his 99th year, surrounded by his loving family and in the exceptional, wonderful care of the nurse and staff at Cuan Chaitriona Nursing Home.<\/p>\n
Son of the late Kate & Michael.<\/p>\n
Predeceased by his infant son Seamus, siblings Mary Renwick, Nora Staunton, Theresa Foley, Paddy Needham, Eugene Needham, Austin Needham, Michael-Joe Needham, son-in-law Christy Gallagher & daughter-in-law Madeline Lavelle.<\/p>\n
Loving husband of Eileen (n\u00e9e Mc Nally) loving father to Michael-Joe (Ann), Mary O\u2019Donnell (Peter), Kathleen Sweeney (Tom), Thomas (Cheryl), Sean, Paraic (Laurel), Peggy Gallagher, Eugene (Margaret), Eileen Keogh (Alan), and Beatrice Prendergast (John).<\/p>\n
Sadly missed and remembered with love by his wife, sons, daughters, sisters Kathleen Needham, & Beatrice Mullen, his thirty one grand children, twenty nine great grand children, nephews, nieces, cousins, extended Needham & McNally families, neighbours and a wide circle of friends.<\/p>\n
May He Rest In Peace<\/p>\n
John will rest in repose at Sweeney\u2019s Funeral Home, Louisburgh\u00a0on Tuesday (February 17th) from 5:00pm, concluding with Vigil Prayers\u00a0at 8:00pm.<\/p>\n
Funeral will arrive\u00a0at 11:30am\u00a0to the Church of the Holy Family, Killeen\u00a0on Wednesday (February 18th)\u00a0for 12 noon Mass of Christian Burial, followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery.<\/p>\n
Family flowers only. Donations in lieu if desired to Louisburgh Meals on Wheels c\/o Sweeney Funeral Directors, Louisburgh.<\/p>\n
Condolence can be left for the family in the Condolences link below.<\/p>\n
Mass can be viewed live by clicking on www.louisburghparish.ie Killeen webcam<\/p>\n
House Private Please<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feenone, Carrowniskey, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. February 15th 2026 : Peacefully in his 99th year, surrounded by his loving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-300172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300172","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=300172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}