{"id":578758,"date":"2026-08-01T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578758\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:44:22","slug":"tributes-paid-to-westmeath-country-singer-ahead-of-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578758\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes Paid To Westmeath Country Singer Ahead Of Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 31 July 2026 17:30\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a6cccf798555698b27.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo credit: rip.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Father of the Sheerin Family Band, Dan Sheerin is being remembered ahead of his funeral.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The funeral of a popular Westmeath country music singer is set to take place on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Tang&#8217;s Dan Sheerin, father of the Sheerin Family Band passed away yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Removal from his home will be to St Mary&#8217;s Church in Tang tomorrow to arrive at 6, with his funeral mass to take place on Sunday at 2 pm and burial afterwards in Temple-a-Valley Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Midlands singer Simon Casey knew Dan for over 25 years and says he&#8217;s left behind a strong musical legacy:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 31 July 2026 17:30 Photo credit: rip.ie Father of the Sheerin Family Band, Dan Sheerin is being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3279,319,93,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-578758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578758","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=578758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}