{"id":449919,"date":"2026-05-15T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449919\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:39:09","slug":"pier-tragedy-mum-recalls-unbreakable-connection-with-much-loved-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449919\/","title":{"rendered":"Pier tragedy mum recalls \u2018unbreakable connection\u2019 with much-loved priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Louise James shares how Fr Paddy O\u2019Kane helped her through the darkest of days after losing partner, mother, sister and two sons<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louise James, pictured with her daughter Rioghnach-Ann, has spoken of her bond with Fr Paddy O'Kane (inset)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b1c9984e-5998-48e2-956a-96456bf802d1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Louise James, pictured with her daughter Rioghnach-Ann, has spoken of her bond with Fr Paddy O&#8217;Kane (inset)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A woman whose five family members died in a drowning tragedy has told of how a priest offered an \u201cunexpected sanctuary\u201d, despite battling with his own burdens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Louise James lost her partner Sean McGrotty (49), their two sons Mark (12) and Evan (8), her mum Ruth Daniels (57) and her sister Jodie-Lee Daniels (14) when their car sank in Lough Swilly, County Donegal, on March 20, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louise James shares how Fr Paddy O\u2019Kane helped her through the darkest of days after losing partner, mother,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-449919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449919","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=449919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}