The death has occurred of the father of the late singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan following a \u201cshort illness.\u201d<\/p>\n
A death notice on Rip.ie reads that Maurice MacGowan died peacefully and surrounded by family on August 3rd whilst in the care of staff at University Hospital Limerick.<\/p>\n
He was originally from Ranelagh in Dublin but also lived in Silvermines and in Nenagh in Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n
MacGowan was predeceased by his \u201cbeloved wife Therese and cherished son Shane. \u201c<\/p>\n
Therese MacGowan, 87, was killed when the car she was driving struck a wall in Ballintoher near her home in Silvermines on New Year\u2019s Day in 2017.<\/p>\n
She was the sole occupant of the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Shane MacGowan, who was the former frontman of The Pogues, died on November 30th, 2023. He was 65.<\/p>\n
Maurice MacGowan is survived and will be \u201csadly missed\u201d by his daughter, Siobhan, son-in-law Anthony, daughter in law Victoria Mary Clarke, nieces and nephews, extended family and friends.<\/p>\n
His funeral service will take place at the Shannon Crematorium on Saturday at 4pm. The service will be live-streamed.<\/p>\n
Mourners are invited to make donations, if desired, to St Vincent De Paul in lieu of flowers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death has occurred of the father of the late singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan following a \u201cshort illness.\u201d A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-584514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584514","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=584514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}