{"id":468221,"date":"2026-05-26T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468221\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:31:08","slug":"padraig-hester-midwest-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468221\/","title":{"rendered":"Padraig Hester &#8211; Midwest Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vale View,\u00a0Lisalway,\u00a0Castlerea, County\u00a0Roscommon (25th May 2026) \u2013 in his 90th year, in the tender care of\u00a0Roscommon\u00a0Hospice, surrounded by those he loved the most.<\/p>\n<p>Padraig\u00a0is predeceased by his parents, Bridget and James; his brothers Michael and Frank: and his nephew Seamus.<\/p>\n<p>He will be sadly missed and\u00a0lovingly remembered by his wife Patricia, son James, daughter Bernadette, son-in-law Graham, grandchildren Gavin, Megan and Logan, brother Canon Seamus, sister Anna, sister-in-law Marie, his many nieces and nephews, extended family, neighbours and friends.<\/p>\n<p>May His Gentle Soul Rest in Peace<\/p>\n<p>Reposing at his family residence on Wednesday evening from 4pm until 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>Removal on Thursday morning to St. Paul\u2019s Church, Kilmurray (Eircode F45K889) arriving for Funeral Mass at 12 noon followed by burial immediately afterwards in Rathmoyle cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Those who cannot attend the funeral, please feel free to leave a message in the condolence book below or send by email to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/obituaries\/padraig-hester\/mailto:info@flanaganundertakers.ie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">info@flanaganundertakers.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mass can be viewed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flanaganundertakers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flanaganundertakers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donations in lieu of flowers if desired to\u00a0Roscommon\u00a0Hospice<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hospice.ie\/donations\/in-loving-memory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.hospice.ie\/donations\/in-loving-memory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vale View,\u00a0Lisalway,\u00a0Castlerea, County\u00a0Roscommon (25th May 2026) \u2013 in his 90th year, in the tender care of\u00a0Roscommon\u00a0Hospice, surrounded by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-468221","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\/468221","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=468221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}