The death has been announced of Marie Keane, mother of Ireland and former Manchester United star Roy Keane.
Mrs Keane passed away peacefully earlier this morning at Marymount University Hospital and Hospice in Cork.
A notice on RIP.ie reads as follows:
Keane (Carhoo, Rathpeacon, Co. Cork); on March 27th, 2026, peacefully, surrounded by her loving family and in the tender care of the doctors, nurses and staff of St Anne’s Ward at Marymount University Hospital and Hospice; Marie (née Lynch), dearly loved wife of the late Maurice (Mossie) and beloved mother of Denis, Johnson, Hilary, Roy and Pat. She was predeceased by her brother Pat, her niece Estella and her nephew Thomas.
She will be sadly missed by her loving family, sisters Ina, Annette and Josephine; brothers Jack, Leo, Michael and Noel; grandchildren, great-grandchildren; daughters-in-law Linda, Theresa and Mary; brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Maurice (Mossie) Keane passed away in 2018 following a stroke.
Roy Keane is understood to have visited his mother at Marymount on a weekly basis.
Reposing at O’Connor Bros Funeral Home, North Gate Bridge, on Monday from 6pm. Requiem Mass will take place on Tuesday at 11am in the Church of the Resurrection, Farranree.
