Gerry (Sean) O'Reilly, Virginia, Cavan

At Cavan General Hospital on the morning of June 5th, 2026, Gerry O'Reilly — a man who had lived across three countries and nearly nine decades — passed peacefully from this world, his family gathered close. He was 85, a patriarch whose life traced the arc of the Irish diaspora: from Clare to New York to a final homecoming in Virginia, County Cavan. His death was the kind that asks nothing more of us than to bear witness, and on Monday, June 8th, those who loved him will gather at Saint Colmcille's Church in Kells to do exactly that.