{"id":372548,"date":"2026-03-30T06:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:40:07","slug":"george-sweeney-georgie-midwest-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372548\/","title":{"rendered":"George Sweeney (Georgie) &#8211; Midwest Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blenkeragh, Ballycroy. Peacefully at Galway University Hospital following a short illness.<\/p>\n<p>Predeceased by his parents George P and Anne, his brother Tony, sisters Kathleen, Una and little sister Ann, nephew George and niece Maura.<\/p>\n<p>George will be sadly missed by his heartbroken wife Mary, sons E\u00f3in and Fergus, daughters-in-law Martha and Helen, his adored grandchildren Holly, Emma, Ciar\u00e1n and D\u00e1ire his brothers Fr. Eamonn (Scotland), Joe (Dublin) and by his sisters Helen Kelly (Bonniconlon) Mary Quinn (Waterford) and Nuala Corcoran (Dublin) brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews extend relatives, his wonderful neighbours and his wide circle of friends.<\/p>\n<p>May his Soul Rest in Peace<\/p>\n<p>George will repose at the family Funeral Home, Sweeney\u2019s (F28KF20) on Wednesday 1st\u00a0April from 4pm until 7pm with removal to the Church of the Holy Family, Ballycroy arriving at 7.30pm for reception and Funeral Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral liturgy on Holy Thursday morning at 11am with burial afterwards in the local cemetery. Funeral liturgy will be live-streamed on Holy Family Church, Ballycroy Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Family flowers only. Donations if desired to Mayo-Roscommon Hospice c\/o Sweeney Funeral Directors Ballycroy 086 3798576.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospice.ie\/donations\/in-loving-memory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hospice.ie\/donations\/in-loving-memory\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blenkeragh, Ballycroy. Peacefully at Galway University Hospital following a short illness. Predeceased by his parents George P and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-372548","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\/372548","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=372548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}