{"id":346451,"date":"2026-03-14T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346451\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:22:10","slug":"ballina-native-to-play-at-ronnie-delaneys-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346451\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballina native to play at Ronnie Delaney\u2019s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ballina uilleann piper Eamonn Walsh is to play at the funeral of all-time great, Olympic Gold Medalist Ronnie Delaney on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Delaney was one of Ireland\u2019s finest athletes, winning the 1,500m gold at the Melbourne Olympics, aged 21.<\/p>\n<p>As well as this, he also won 1,500m bronze at the 1958 European Championships, and 800m gold at the 1961 World University Games, on top of four NCAA outdoor titles.<\/p>\n<p>Ballina native Walsh has played at a number of high profile funerals, including those of Gay Byrne, Kathleen Watkins, Christy Duignan of Aslan and Slane Castle\u2019s Lord henry Mount Charles.<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie\u2019s funeral mass will take place in the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Foxrock at 11:00am on Monday, followed by a private cremation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Ballina uilleann piper Eamonn Walsh is to play at the funeral of all-time great, Olympic Gold Medalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-346451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346451","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=346451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}