{"id":574283,"date":"2026-07-29T19:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574283\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:42:15","slug":"tragedy-for-pamela-flood-and-ronan-ryan-as-his-son-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574283\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy for Pamela Flood and Ronan Ryan as his son dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pamela Flood and her husband Ronan Ryan are mourning the loss of his young son, Zach, who has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zach, who is restaurateur Ronan\u2019s son from a previous relationship, was only six when former TV presenter Pamela came into his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His death notice on <a href=\"https:\/\/rip.ie\/death-notice\/zach-chard-ryan-dublin-clontarf-637681\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rip.ie\/death-notice\/zach-chard-ryan-dublin-clontarf-637681\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RIP.ie<\/a> reads: &#8216;It is with great sadness we announce Zach\u2019s unexpected but peaceful passing, surrounded by love, following a sudden illness, in the care of the doctors, nurses and staff at Beaumont Hospital.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/zryan.jpg\" alt=\"Zach Ryan. Pic: RIP.ie\" class=\"wp-image-2176789\"  \/>Zach Chard-Ryan. Pic: RIP.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as Zach, Ronan is a father to Harrison, Elsie, <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2021\/05\/24\/entertainment\/pamela-flood-too-old-to-have-third-child\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2021\/05\/24\/entertainment\/pamela-flood-too-old-to-have-third-child\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and Gracie<\/a>, whom he shares with Pamela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pamela has spoken about her close bond with her stepson in the past, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/lifestyle\/family\/parenting\/pamela-flood-step-motherhood-has-made-my-life-all-the-richer\/a\/145360049.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/lifestyle\/family\/parenting\/pamela-flood-step-motherhood-has-made-my-life-all-the-richer\/a\/145360049.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">telling Mothers &amp; Babies magazine<\/a> ahead of her wedding to Ronan that Zach has made \u2018being a stepmum an absolute pleasure.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Zach is a very loving, heart-on-his-sleeve young man and has made being a stepmum an absolute pleasure for me,\u2019 Pamela said at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Pamela-Flood-Ronan-Ryan-3.jpg\" alt=\"Pamela Flood and Ronan Ryan\" class=\"wp-image-2175742\"  \/>Pamela Flood and Ronan Ryan. Pic: VIP Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She continued: \u2018I promise you I\u2019m not writing this so he\u2019ll read it and award me brownie points, because if you ask anyone who knows or has encountered him, he is one of the loveliest kids you could ever meet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018He\u2019s thoughtful, kind, hilarious and an amazing brother to his younger siblings. In fact, Harrison has a real hero worship thing going on, which I love because if he turns out half as nice as Zach is, I\u2019ll be a very happy mammy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zach\u2019s notice on RIP.ie continued: \u2018Adored son of Andrea Chard and Ronan Ryan, treasured grandson of Anne, Gerry and Mary, much-loved brother of Harrison, Elsie, Gracie, Lee, Gill and Jodie, loving stepson of Pamela and Darren, and loving boyfriend and best-friend of Izzy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018He will be very sadly missed by his devastated parents, girlfriend, siblings, grandparents, stepmother, his aunt and uncles, extended family, his many friends and his colleagues and the many people for whom he cared through his work with Dublin Simon Outreach.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Pamela-Flood-Ronan-Ryan-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pamela Flood and Ronan Ryan\" class=\"wp-image-2175744\"  \/>Pamela Flood and Ronan Ryan. Pic: Arthur Carron\/Collins Photos<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zach&#8217;s father Ronan and stepmother Pamela tied the knot several years ago in a low-key ceremony in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ronan previously owned three restaurants, including the Town Bar and Grill on Kildare Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In more recent years, he opened the doors to Le Comptoir Caf\u00e9 in Donnybrook in 2021, and in 2022, the Irish Mail On Sunday revealed that Ronan was <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2022\/03\/06\/food\/restaurants\/corrigan-and-ryan-shelbourne\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2022\/03\/06\/food\/restaurants\/corrigan-and-ryan-shelbourne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poised to take over<\/a> Dylan McGrath\u2019s Shelbourne Social.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zach\u2019s\u00a0funeral Mass\u00a0will take place in the\u00a0Church of St. John the Baptist, Clontarf,\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday, August 1, at 10am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donations, in lieu of flowers, can be made to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dubsimon.ie\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dubsimon.ie\/donate\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dublin Simon Community Outreach Service<\/a>, a cause which was close to Zach\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pamela Flood and her husband Ronan Ryan are mourning the loss of his young son, Zach, who has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-574283","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\/574283","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=574283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}