{"id":575434,"date":"2026-07-30T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575434\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:40:13","slug":"mary-sweeney-nee-boyce-sheephaven-college-farm-road-letterkenny-formerly-carrigart-highland-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575434\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Sweeney, (n\u00e9e Boyce), \u201cSheephaven\u201d, College Farm Road, Letterkenny, formerly Carrigart &#8211; Highland Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-464019 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Obit-Template-1-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"534\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The peaceful death has taken place on Wednesday, 29th July 2026, of Mary Sweeney, (n\u00e9e Boyce), aged 97 years, formerly of Carrigart, at her home \u201cSheephaven\u201d, College Farm Road, Letterkenny, surrounded by her loving family.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved wife of the late Maurice.<\/p>\n<p>Mary, was a devoted mother to Mary (Kells), Maeve (Letterkenny), John (Ardara), and P\u00f3l (Kinsale). She will be deeply missed by her brothers Patrick and Columba (Carrigart), sister-in-law Anne, sons-in-law Paddy and Christy, daughters-in-law Mireille and Deborah, nieces, nephews, cherished grandchildren, great-grandchildren, carers, neighbours, and her many friends.<\/p>\n<p>Reposing at the family home, College Farm Road (F92 RF6T), from 12 noon to 9.00pm on Thursday 30th and Friday 31st July, where you are most welcome to pay your respects, concluding with Rosary each night at 9.00pm.<\/p>\n<p>Family time, please, on the morning of the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Requiem Mass at 11.00am on Saturday, 1st August, in St. Eunan\u2019s Cathedral, which can be viewed online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchservices.tv\/letterkenny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.churchservices.tv\/letterkenny<\/a> followed by burial in Conwal Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Family flowers only, please, donations, if wished, to the Irish Cancer Society, c\/o Paschal Blake, Funeral Director, Stoney Arch, New Line Rd, Letterkenny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The peaceful death has taken place on Wednesday, 29th July 2026, of Mary Sweeney, (n\u00e9e Boyce), aged 97&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-575434","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\/575434","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=575434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}