The funeral mass of musician D\u00f3nal Lunny has taken place in Co Kildare.<\/p>\n
He died aged 79 on 23 October.<\/p>\n
Singer songwriters and musicians Christy Moore, Adam Clayton, Sharon Shannon and Paul Brady were among the mourners at St Conleth’s church in Newbridge, Co Kildare this morning.<\/p>\n
Mr Lunny’s family had urged well-wishers and fans to join the service by livestream as capacity in the church was limited to family and close friends.<\/p>\n
Read more: Public books of condolence were opened at the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge and Kildare County Council\u2019s offices.<\/p>\n Mr Lunny toured worldwide after rising to prominence in the Rakes of Kildare band alongside Christy Moore and his brother Frank.<\/p>\n He went on to play in bands such as Planxty, Moving Hearts, the Bothy Band and Coolfin.<\/p>\n Born in Tullamore, Co Offaly, he was a multi-instrumentalist but was best known for his mastery of the bouzouki.<\/p>\n He was a talented melody writer and was considered central to the revival of traditional music as he produced 17 albums on his record label Mulligan Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funeral mass of musician D\u00f3nal Lunny has taken place in Co Kildare. He died aged 79 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-670891","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\/670891","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=670891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
D\u00f3nal Lunny, the musician who played a vital role in Irish music<\/a>
In pictures: The life and music of D\u00f3nal Lunny<\/a><\/p>\n