{"id":493939,"date":"2026-06-11T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493939\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:10:09","slug":"the-well-known-man-tom-stokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493939\/","title":{"rendered":"The Well Known Man Tom Stokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom died peacefully, surrounded by his family on 9th June 2026, in Sligo University Hospital. Predeceased by his beloved wife Mary and his dear walking partners Fr. Martin Mulvaney and Michael McNulty.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tom will be sadly missed by his loving family, daughters Anne, Maggie, Bridget, Winnie, Mary, Kathleen, Lena, Eileen and Julia, sons Edward, Patrick, Tom, Martin, Willie, John, Michael, Brian, Tony and Bob, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, his adored grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great great-grandchildren, sisters May, Maggie, Bridget and Kathleen, brother Willie, sister-in-law Winnie Mongan, brothers-in-law Michael Mongan, Ned Mongan, John Nevin and Tom McDonagh, nieces, nephews, neighbours and his many good friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We hold you close within our hearts,<br \/>And there you shall remain,<br \/>To walk with us throughout our lives<br \/>Until we meet again.<\/p>\n<p>So rest in peace, dear Tom,<br \/>And thanks for all you\u2019ve done:<br \/>We pray that God has given you<br \/>The crown you\u2019ve truly won.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tom will reposing in his home on\u00a0Friday 12th\u00a0from\u00a01 o&#8217;clock\u00a0until\u00a05 o&#8217;clock, followed with removal to St. Mary&#8217;s Church, Carrick-on Shannon for prayers at\u00a06 o&#8217;clock. Funeral Mass on\u00a0Saturday 13th\u00a0at\u00a012 o&#8217;clock. Following Mass, Tom will be laid to rest in the family plot in St.Mary&#8217;s cemetery, Carrick-on-Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tom&#8217;s family would like to thank the Doctors, Nurses and Care Staff of the Coronary Care Unit of Sligo University Hospital and the Ambulance Staff who looked after our father so well. Your care and kindness will never be forgotten, Thank you all.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Condolences can be left in the link below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom died peacefully, surrounded by his family on 9th June 2026, in Sligo University Hospital. Predeceased by his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-493939","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\/493939","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=493939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}