{"id":459806,"date":"2026-05-21T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459806\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:09:08","slug":"george-mcknight-midwest-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459806\/","title":{"rendered":"George McKnight &#8211; Midwest Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackrock Court, Ballina, Co. Mayo and formerly of Dublin (19th May, 2026) \u2013 peacefully at the Mayo Hospice on Tuesday, 19th May 2026, surrounded by his loving family.<\/p>\n<p>Predeceased by his son Robbie, his parents George and Elizabeth, his brother Joe, and his sister Shelia.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved husband of Anne and dear father of Julie, Jason, Claire, and Alan.<\/p>\n<p>He will be sadly missed by his wife, sons, daughters, grandchildren, sons-in-law Richard and Ralph, daughter-in-law Orlagh, Alans partner Saoirse, Shaun, Bernie and Tommy, his sisters Anne and Mary, in-laws, nephews, relatives, neighbours, and friends.<\/p>\n<p>May George Rest in Peace.<\/p>\n<p>Reposing at McGowans Funeral Home, Ballina (F26 V274) on Thursday 21st of May from 5:00 until 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will arrive for Requiem Mass to St Muredach\u2019s Cathedral, Ballina on Friday 22nd of May at 11:30am, followed by burial in Leigue Cemetery, Ballina.<\/p>\n<p>House Private Please.<\/p>\n<p>Family flowers only please donations if desired to the Mayo Hospice Castlebar care of McGowan\u2019s Funeral Home or online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospice.ie\/donations\/in-loving-memory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hospice.ie\/donations\/in-loving-memory\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You are welcome to leave a message of condolence for his family below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackrock Court, Ballina, Co. Mayo and formerly of Dublin (19th May, 2026) \u2013 peacefully at the Mayo Hospice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-459806","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\/459806","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=459806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}