{"id":458953,"date":"2026-05-20T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458953\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:25:17","slug":"paddy-joyce-midwest-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458953\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Joyce &#8211; Midwest Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading, England and formerly of Owenwee, Westport, Co Mayo.<\/p>\n<p>1936-2026<\/p>\n<p>Paddy died peacefully on 24 April 2026 in hospital after a short illness, aged 90.<\/p>\n<p>A proud Mayo man, Paddy visited regularly and was closely connected to his roots throughout his life.<\/p>\n<p>Predeceased by his wife Tessie (nee Murphy), sons Mick and Jim, his parents Peter and Katie (nee Hastings), his siblings Mary, John Joe, James, Annie, Frank, Catherine, Martin and Nora.<\/p>\n<p>He will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by his children Cathy, Peter, Nora, his grandchildren Michael, Shaun, James, Honor and Jacob and his daughters-in-law Debi and Diane and his beloved twin brother Peter of Clinton, Mass, US. Also, by his nephews, nieces, cousins, extended Joyce and Murphy families and a wide circle of friends.<\/p>\n<p>MAY HIS GENTLE SOUL REST IN PEACE.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy will repose in Navin\u2019s Funeral Home, Westport this Friday evening from 5 o\u2019clock with removal at 6 o\u2019clock to St. Mary\u2019s Church, Westport.<\/p>\n<p>Requiem Mass on Saturday morning at 10.30am with burial afterwards in Aughavale cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Mass will be live streamed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtv.ie\/westport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.churchtv.ie\/westport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can leave a message of sympathy for the family on the condolence link below.<\/p>\n<p>Family flowers only.<\/p>\n<p>Donations if desired to Irish Cancer Society <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cancer.ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>c\/o Moran Funeral Directors Aughagower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading, England and formerly of Owenwee, Westport, Co Mayo. 1936-2026 Paddy died peacefully on 24 April 2026 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-458953","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\/458953","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=458953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}