HIS was a very familiar and welcoming face for a whole generation of visitors to Killarney and the town was greatly saddened this week to learn of the passing, following an illness, of Donie Tangney, a well-known and hugely popular local jarvey. A member of a family steeped in the jaunting car tradition, that it… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Obituaries
Freedom fighter’s nephew enjoyed a long and happy life
JUST weeks after family and friends gathered to celebrate his landmark 100th birthday, popular Dan Joe O’Connor from Rathmore has passed away. A nephew of freedom fighter Captain Patrick O’Connor, who lost his life during the 1916 Rising and about whom the hit musical drama, Patrick, was written, Dan Joe passed away in the care… Continue Reading
Special traffic arrangements in place for funeral
KILLARNEY has been greatly saddened by the passing of Mrs Tess Carroll, a well-known local woman who will be remembered as a gentle, friendly lady who lived for her family and always displayed great elegance and glamour. Formerly Tess O’Regan of Headford, Mrs Carroll and her late husband, Donie, lived at Marian Terrace in Killarney… Continue Reading
‘The people of Killarney opened their doors to my parents and they soon found a home filled with friends’
A FORMAL proposal to open a book of condolences for Sr Pauline McShain – whose parents donated Killarney House and Gardens and Innisfallen island to the people of Killarney – will be made at a meeting of Kerry County Council this Monday morning. A nun with the Society of the Holy Child Jesus Order, she passed… Continue Reading
Passing of Sr Pauline McShain in Philidelphia
THE only child of the couple who donated the stunning Killarney House and Gardens to the people has passed away. Sr Pauline (Polly) McShain has died in Philadelphia where she lived and worked with the Society of the Holy Child Jesus order which she joined in 1946. During the 1990s, she became a volunteer with Siloam,… Continue Reading
