Lengthy-time Irish Instances nature editor Ethna Viney is to be laid to residue in Co Mayo this weekend. Ms Viney (née Mc Manus), in the beginning from Co Cavan, died peacefully on Friday in Mayo Hospice along with her nation by means of her aspect. She was once 95.
Her husband, Micheal Viney, himself a veteran Irish Instances journalist and nature editor, died virtually precisely a week up to now on the date of 90.
Ms Viney is to repose at Sweeney’s Funeral House, Louisburgh, on Saturday, alike to the couple’s rural house in Thallabawn in west Mayo. The couple moved there from Dublin within the Seventies to reside their “other life” about which they wrote broadly.
There shall be a birthday party of Ms Viney’s occasion on Saturday adopted by means of a personal cremation.
For 33 years she wrote the weekly Perceptible on Nature column for The Irish Instances which seemed along Michael’s nature columns. An energetic feminist and certified chemist, Ms Viney additionally spent occasion running for RTÉ and made various documentaries along with her husband.
