{"id":433853,"date":"2026-05-05T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433853\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:14:08","slug":"michael-mikey-flynn-midwest-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433853\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael \u201cMikey\u201d Flynn &#8211; Midwest Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Michael \u201cMikey\u201d Flynn, who departed this life on October 30, 2025, at the age of 87. Born on August 6th 1938 in Cloughbrack, Clonbur, County Galway, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Michael was a cherished husband (Ellen), son, brother, and friend to many.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is preceded in death by his beloved parents, Mary and Michael Flynn, and his sister, Anne Sullivan, brother Johnny.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his devoted wife, Ellen (nee Curran Athenry) who stood by his side throughout their many years together. He also leaves behind his sister, Mary McBride (Ted), nieces, nephews, and a large extended family including brothers-in-law Thomas, Michael, and Johnny Curran; sisters-in-law Anne Flynn, Anne Zonnenblick, Kate Larson, Margaret Kelly, and Martina Pennington; and numerous friends who will miss him dearly.<\/p>\n<p>Ar Dheis D\u00e9 go raibh a hanam D\u00edlis.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral Mass on Friday May 8th 2026 in St. Patrick\u2019s Church, Clonbur, Co. Galway at 12 noon with burial afterwards of Michael\u2019s Ashes in Rosshill Graveyard , Clonbur.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2019s Funeral Mass will be streamed live on Clonbur \/ Cornamona\u00a0 Church TV. Click on the link below to view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtv.ie\/corrnamona\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.churchtv.ie\/corrnamona\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Family flowers only.<\/p>\n<p>Donations if desired to Social services and Day centre Clonbur.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Family appreciate your respect, support and understanding at this time. Those who would like to leave a message of condolence may do so on the condolence section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Michael \u201cMikey\u201d Flynn, who departed this life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-433853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433853","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=433853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}