{"id":533152,"date":"2026-07-04T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533152\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:38:12","slug":"william-billy-keenan-limericks-live-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533152\/","title":{"rendered":"William (Billy) Keenan &#8211; Limerick&#8217;s Live 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a493505da99df04ac0.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Merval Drive, Clareview, Limerick and late of Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0On July 4th, 2026, Billy passed away peacefully at Cratloe Nursing Home.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Beloved husband of Josephine. Sadly, missed by his sister Margaret, son Scott, daughter Sonya, Scott\u2019s partner Niamh, son-in-law Donal, grandchildren Donal and Cian, nieces, nephews, relatives, neighbours, and friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0May He Rest in Peace<\/p>\n<p>Reposing at Cross\u2019s Funeral Home, Lower Gerald Griffin Street, on Monday, July 6th, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm, followed by removal to Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Ennis Road.<\/p>\n<p>Requiem Mass Tuesday, July 7th, at 11 am, Funeral afterwards to Mount St Oliver Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>William&#8217;s Requiem Mass will be streamed live\u00a0<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.ourladyoftherosaryparishlimerick.ie\/our-parish\/web-cam\/__;!!F0Stn7g!BumcfpyoYAfqYJqzeFrKDdIHAWBMVq6ahGGkf9b5kjAjVHisylwTOHiOdeh590qhghdBFWK9XmlHXoZ3TxNC6w$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1783264548198000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2POmWTiqSNzB8PJokQoL1K\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.ourladyoftherosaryparishlimerick.ie\/our-parish\/web-cam\/__;!!F0Stn7g!BumcfpyoYAfqYJqzeFrKDdIHAWBMVq6ahGGkf9b5kjAjVHisylwTOHiOdeh590qhghdBFWK9XmlHXoZ3TxNC6w$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>House private. Family flowers only please.<\/p>\n<p>Donations, in lieu, if desired, to The Alzheimer Society of Ireland or Dochas Midwest Autism Support.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Dr. Andrew Kelly and to the staff at Cratloe Nursing Home who cared for Billy so well throughout his illness.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-bit=\"iit\" data-image-whitelisted=\"\" id=\"m_9181438848262924474Picture_x0020_775972007\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=3c78ed4c26&amp;attid=0.0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1869797674097921087&amp;th=19f2db13f6754c3f&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1869797674097921087&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-8qYyjlZjrsNasWVjyPoUMo4V2yLnxeMgl9qJZalhme38lLTx0eE1J6yRryU2MlLLWxeTi9f8F__vti8i0Job4Iuhc4ay0vWP0vwRnzzi-qe4CYWRu4GUVAWw&amp;disp=emb&amp;zw\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Funeral Homes at 2 Lower Gerald Griffin Street, Limerick, V94X971<\/p>\n<p>Ballyneety, Co. Limerick, V94A7Y3<\/p>\n<p>John O\u2019Malley &amp; Sons, New Line, Charleville, Co. Cork, P56T184<\/p>\n<p>Telephone: 061-410744<\/p>\n<p>Email:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/obituaries\/william-billy-keenan\/mailto:info@crossfuneralhomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">info@crossfuneralhomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>website:\u00a0<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__http:\/\/www.crossfuneralhomes.com\/__;!!F0Stn7g!BumcfpyoYAfqYJqzeFrKDdIHAWBMVq6ahGGkf9b5kjAjVHisylwTOHiOdeh590qhghdBFWK9XmlHXobgrrBHCA$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1783264548198000&amp;usg=AOvVaw32hxTS-hl4SoK4fOFANL3f\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__http:\/\/www.crossfuneralhomes.com\/__;!!F0Stn7g!BumcfpyoYAfqYJqzeFrKDdIHAWBMVq6ahGGkf9b5kjAjVHisylwTOHiOdeh590qhghdBFWK9XmlHXobgrrBHCA$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.crossfuneralhomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merval Drive, Clareview, Limerick and late of Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. \u00a0On July 4th, 2026, Billy passed away peacefully&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612,43],"class_list":["post-533152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-radio","tag-limerick-today","tag-limericks-live95fm","tag-live-95","tag-live95fm","tag-live95fm-homepage","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533152","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=533152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}