Michael (Mick) O\u2019Rourke<\/p>\n
Ard Na Greine, Clonmel, Tipperary <\/p>\n
and formerly Lake Road, Loughrea, Co. Galway<\/p>\n
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It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Michael K. O\u2019Rourke, who passed away peacefully in Tipperary University Hospital, surrounded by his loving family, on Friday 13th March 2026.<\/p>\n
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Predeceased by his parents Larry and Lena and sons Michael and John.<\/p>\n
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Michael will be sadly missed and never forgotten by his best friend Chris, children Kelly, Dennis and Kevin, brothers Joe, John, Vincie and sister Teresa.<\/p>\n
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His 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, his daughters-in-law, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, his extended family and many friends.<\/p>\n
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Michael will lie in repose in Kilboys Funeral Home, Loughrea (H62 KF63) on Tuesday 17th March from 4-6pm, followed by removal to St. Brendan\u2019s Cathedral, Loughrea.<\/p>\n
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Michael\u2019s Requiem Mass will take place in St. Brendan\u2019s Cathedral, Loughrea, on Wednesday 18th March at 11am, followed by burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Loughrea.<\/p>\n
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Michael\u2019s funeral Mass will be streamed live on the following link: <\/p>\n
https:\/\/loughreacathedral.ie\/<\/a>http:\/\/www.churchservices.tv\/Loughrea<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Family flowers only. Donations, if desired to The Irish Heart Foundation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Michael\u2019s family would like to express their sincere thanks to all their extended family, staff, customers, neighbours & friends for all their kindness and support at this very sad time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael (Mick) O\u2019Rourke Ard Na Greine, Clonmel, Tipperary and formerly Lake Road, Loughrea, Co. Galway \u00a0 It is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-346350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/346350","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=346350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}