{"id":381917,"date":"2026-04-04T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381917\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:50:08","slug":"padraig-pat-cafferkey-ballyare-highland-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381917\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e1draig (Pat) Cafferkey, Ballyare &#8211; Highland Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-451724 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Obit-Template_20260404_152226_0000.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"534\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The death has taken place peacefully in the wonderful care of Ar\u00e1s U\u00ed Dhomhnaill Nursing Home of\u00a0 P\u00e1draig (Pat) Cafferkey of Ballyare, Ramelton, Letterkenny, Co.Donegal, F92Y8K1.<\/p>\n<p>Predeceased by his parents Emily and James, his sister Kathleen and his brother Sean.<\/p>\n<p>Deeply missed by his loving wife Mary, daughter Emma (Conor) and sons Martin (Sinead), Paul (Dominique) and Se\u00e1n (Brittany.)<\/p>\n<p>Adored Grandad to his grandchildren and cherished brother to his sisters Mary and Anne and brother Tony.<\/p>\n<p>Cherished brother in-law, uncle and friend to many.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e1draig\u2019s remains will be reposing at his late residence on Saturday, 4th April, from 7pm to 10pm and on Sunday, 5th April, from 12pm until 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>Rosary at 9pm on both nights.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral leaving his home on Monday, 6th April, at 10.30am for Requiem Mass in the Church of the Irish Martyrs, Letterkenny at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Interment afterwards in Conwall cemetery, Letterkenny.<\/p>\n<p>Family time please from 10pm to 11am and on morning of funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Family flowers only please.<\/p>\n<p>Donations if wished to\u00a0 Residents Comfort fund, Ar\u00e1s U\u00ed Dhomhnaill, care of Paschal Blake Funeral Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death has taken place peacefully in the wonderful care of Ar\u00e1s U\u00ed Dhomhnaill Nursing Home of\u00a0 P\u00e1draig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-381917","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\/381917","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=381917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}