The death has occurred of Joan Delany, the wife of Olympic gold medallist Ronnie Delaney, who passed away just 10 days ago.<\/p>\n
Ronnie and Joan were married for 64 years.<\/p>\n
Last Monday, Ronnie Delany Jnr told mourners gathered at a funeral mass in Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church in Foxrock in Dublin that his father had won his second gold medal when he met his beloved Joan.<\/p>\n
He said that he and his sisters \u201cwere lucky to have parents who adored each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Delany, who was late of Carrickmines and formerly of Dundrum, was unable to attend the mass as she was in hospital. She watched the ceremony via Webcam.<\/p>\n
She passed away on Wednesday, just two days after the funeral of her husband.<\/p>\n
Delany was surrounded by her devoted family and in the compassionate care of staff at the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin.<\/p>\n
In a funeral notice on Rip.ie her family said that the couple were \u201creunited once more in gentle peace.\u201d Delany was predeceased by her sister Ann and her brother Brian.<\/p>\n
She is survived by her adult children, Lisa, Ronnie, Jennie and Michelle (Mimi), her grandchildren and great granddaughter, her sons and daughter-in-law, her sister Pat and Sally, nieces, nephews, extended family and a wide circle of loyal friends.<\/p>\n
Her family described her as a \u201ckind and loving presence in the lives of all who knew her\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJoan will be remembered always for her beauty, warmth, grace and quiet strength.\u201d<\/p>\n
A funeral mass took place at St Brigid\u2019s Church in Cabinteely in Dublin on Saturday at 11 am. A private cremation service will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death has occurred of Joan Delany, the wife of Olympic gold medallist Ronnie Delaney, who passed away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-358034","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\/358034","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=358034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}