{"id":434986,"date":"2026-05-06T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434986\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:58:17","slug":"death-notice-of-michael-hester-kilkenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434986\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Notice of Michael Hester (Kilkenny)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\">Michael Hester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Conahy, Co. Kilkenny <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&amp; formerly of Brickens, Co. Mayo  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">4 May 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Passed away peacefully at St. Luke&#8217;s Hospital, Kilkenny on Monday evening <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Michael will be sadly missed by his wife Mary, daughters Aoibhlinn and Doireann, sons Diarmuid and Cathal, sons-in-law Harry and Hisham, daughters-in-law R\u00f3is\u00edn and George, grandchildren Elliot, Bernadette, Edith, Henry, Lochlann, Marty and Lena, brothers Brendan and Sean, and by his many friends, relatives, neighbours and past-pupils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Michael is pre-deceased by his parents Sean and Evelyn, brothers Joe and Tom, sister Bernadette and nephew Robert.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Leaba i measc na Naomh go raibh aige<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Reposing at his Home in Conahy (R95 R2F7) on Friday 8th May from 4.30pm to 7.30pm followed by Prayers and Removal to St Colman\u2019s Church, Conahy, for arrival at 8pm approximately.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Michael&#8217;s Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Saturday (9th May) at 1 o&#8217;clock, and he will be laid to rest thereafter in the adjoining cemetery. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Please use the online condolence link below to offer your sympathies to the family, and share memories of Michael. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Hester Conahy, Co. Kilkenny &amp; formerly of Brickens, Co. Mayo 4 May 2026 Passed away peacefully at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-434986","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\/434986","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=434986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}