Joan Delany, wife of late Olympic gold medalist Ronnie, has died The Journal Joan Delany, wife of Olympian Ronnie Delany, has died RTE.ie Joan Delany, wife of Olympian Ronnie Delany, dies two days after her husband’s funeral The Irish Times Joan Delany, wife of late Olympic gold medallist Ronnie Delany, dies two days after husband’s funeral The Irish Independent … Read more
Joan Delany, wife of Irish Olympic gold medal winner Ronnie Delany, has died just a week after her husband, and two days after he was laid to rest. She died, surrounded by family, in the Blackrock Clinic on Wednesday. Her funeral takes place on Saturday at 11am in St Brigid’s Church, Cabinteely, and the funeral … Read more
Joan Delany, for 64 years the wife of the late Ronnie Delany, was represented at his funeral in the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Foxrock, south Dublin, by a single red rose. Parish priest Fr Philip Bradley told the congregation that Joan was hospitalised but would be joining thousands of people around … Read more
It doesn’t feel that long ago since Ronnie Delany was telling me the difference between his fate and faith, and how these conspired into something we might all call our destiny. Fate, for Delany, was when you got the sense you knew something about yourself that no one else did. Which in his case meant … Read more