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THE funeral arrangements for hugely popular Killarney businessman JJ O’Donoghue, who died unexpectedly while travelling abroad, have now been confirmed.
Reposing at O’Shea’s Funeral Home, Cathedral Place on Sunday from 4.30pm to 6.00pm, a private service will take place on Monday followed by cremation in the Island Crematorium, Cork.
In lieu of flowers, the family has asked for donations to the Kevin Bell Repatriation Fund or Talbot Grove, Castleisland.
JJ, formerly of Clonkeen Post Office, previously operated a public house on Main Street but, in more recent years, he had the Nu-Era health store, initially in the Killarney Shopping Arcade on New Street and, more recently, on Plunkett Street.
He is survived by his children, Pam, Padraig, Valerie, Grace and Rachel, grandchildren Frankie, Lily-Rose, Amelia and Hope and sons-in-law Mark, Alan, Hardip and Alan Mc.
He is further survived by his brothers Gerard and Seamus, sisters Kay, Josephine, Noreen, Celine and Angela, brothers and sisters-in-law, Noel, Eddie, Pat, Andrew, Paul, Cáit and Therese.
The family notice on RIP.ie acknowledged that JJ had supported many people throughout his life and said he will be dearly missed by his children, their mother Margaret, his treasured friends and extended family.
