{"id":436579,"date":"2026-05-07T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436579\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:48:08","slug":"james-noel-mcnicholas-better-known-as-noel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436579\/","title":{"rendered":"James Noel McNicholas (better known as Noel)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cloonaghmore, Ballyheane, Castlebar \u2013 on 6th May 2026, peacefully at Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar.<\/p>\n

Predeceased by his father Joe and mother Annie (n\u00e9e O\u2019Dea), his brothers Paddy (U.K) and Frank (Castlebar) and his sister Clara (New Jersey, USA).<\/p>\n

He will be sadly missed and forever loved by his heartbroken wife Mary (n\u00e9e Sweeney Ballycroy), daughter Alvina (Ballyheane), his sons Gary (Cogaula, Westport) and Noel (Christ Church, New Zealand), his cherished grandchildren Emma,\u00a0 Nathan,\u00a0 Zoey,\u00a0 Oisin,\u00a0 Fionn,\u00a0 Katie and Jack, his son-in-law Martin Staunton, his daughters-in-law Fiona (Cogaula) and Claire (New Zealand), his twin-sister Christine Joyce (Mountgordon, Castlebar) and his sister Una McLoughlin (New York), his brothers John (New York), Ollie (New York), Joe (Kinturk,\u00a0 Ballyheane) and Richard (Rocklands, Castlebar), his brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, God-daughters Karen and Fiona, his cousins, nieces, nephews, close neighbours, relatives and friends.<\/p>\n

May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n

Noel will repose in Ballyheane Community Centre on Sunday, 10th May from 6.00pm with prayers at 8.00pm.<\/p>\n

The funeral will arrive to St. Patrick\u2019s Church, Ballyheane on Monday, 11th May at 11.00 am for Funeral Mass at 11.30am.<\/p>\n

Afterwards Noel will be laid to rest in Ballyheane Cemetery.<\/p>\n

You can view the Funeral Mass on www.churchtv.ie\/ballyheane<\/a><\/p>\n

If you wish to leave a message of condolence for the family please click on the Condolence Link below or you can write to the family c\/o Kilcoyne\u2019s Funeral Home, Thomas Street, Castlebar.<\/p>\n

All enquiries to Kilcoyne Funeral Directors, Thomas Street, Castlebar on 087-2648869\u00a0 www.kilcoynefuneralhome.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cloonaghmore, Ballyheane, Castlebar \u2013 on 6th May 2026, peacefully at Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar. Predeceased by his father…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-436579","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\/436579","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=436579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}