{"id":392617,"date":"2026-04-11T02:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392617\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:49:10","slug":"friends-and-family-to-mark-40th-anniversary-of-letterkenny-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392617\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and family to mark 40th anniversary of Letterkenny tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, 26 April marks the 40th anniversary of a fire that tore through the O\u2019Donnell family home at 65 Ard O\u2019Donnell in Letterkenny (The Burma).<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy claimed the lives of four children, Sharan (16), Joanne (12), Adrian (4), and Kevin (18 months) along with their babysitter, Noreen O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy left the O\u2019Donnell family, parents Joe and Angela, and their surviving children Philip, Patrick and Joseph, as well as friends and the wider community, shocked and devastated.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the anniversary, a committee of friends have organised a remembrance event, including a musical tribute at St Eunan\u2019s Cathedral on Sunday, 26 April. <\/p>\n<p>The event will feature guest artists including Margo O\u2019Donnell, Shunie Crampsey, Sinead &amp; Alex Black, local choirs and performances from local artists, family members, and friends.<\/p>\n<p>The O\u2019Donnell family also invites members of the community to attend a commemorative Mass, celebrated by Fr John Joe Duffy, at St Eunan\u2019s Cathedral on Saturday, 25 April at 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 26 April marks the 40th anniversary of a fire that tore through the O\u2019Donnell family home at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-392617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392617","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=392617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}