{"id":487780,"date":"2026-06-07T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487780\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:39:08","slug":"ernie-ernest-caffrey-midwest-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487780\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernie (Ernest) Caffrey &#8211; Midwest Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garden Street, Ballina, Co. Mayo \u2013 peacefully, at his residence surrounded by his family, 7th June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Predeceased by his wife Phyllis, his parents William and Elizabeth, and his sister-in-law Jocie McEvoy.<\/p>\n<p>Ernie, beloved father of Liam, Declan, Elizabeth, and Miriam. Sadly missed by Liam\u2019s partner Una, daughter-in-law Lelia, sons-in-law Sean Ryan and Sean Lavelle. Devoted grandfather to Femhe, C\u00fa\u00e1n, Caoimhe, Iarlaith, Colm, Setanta, Macdara, \u00c9adaoin, Diarmuid, and Saoirse. Sadly missed by sister-in-law Peggy Finegan, niece Joanna, and nephew Joe, relatives, and large circle of friends.<\/p>\n<p>Reposing at McGowan\u2019s Funeral Home, Ballina (F26 V274) on Monday evening from 5pm until 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will arrive to St. Muredach\u2019s Cathedral, Ballina on Tuesday morning for 11.30am Requiem Mass followed by burial in Leigue cemetery, Ballina.<\/p>\n<p>Ernie\u2019s funeral Mass will be livestreamed on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballinaparish.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.ballinaparish.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garden Street, Ballina, Co. Mayo \u2013 peacefully, at his residence surrounded by his family, 7th June 2026. Predeceased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-487780","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\/487780","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=487780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}