Victoria Mary Clarke says Shane MacGowan is 'still very much with her' as she thanks fans
Victoria Mary Clarke took to Instagram this morning to thank fans for their support and kind messages after Shane MacGowan’s funeral last Friday, the singer’s wife also claimed that Shane’s spirit is still ‘very much with me
by Autumn Corcoran · RSVP LiveThe Pogues singer, Shane MacGowan was laid to rest on Friday, 8th of December, after his passing on the 30th of November.
The star died just one week after he was discharged from St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, where he was fighting an infection from a viral encephalitis.
Now, Shane’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, has taken to Instagram to thank his fans for their support after Shane’s funeral and to assure them that Shane’s spirit is still with her.
Posting on Instagram this morning, Victoria Mary wrote:
“I just wanted to say thank you for so many beautiful messages of support, I know that each and every one of you has plenty of problems and challenges of your own to be thinking about. You are all so generous, kind, thoughtful, and compassionate and I am deeply grateful to you.
“Please take a moment to appreciate yourselves! Sharing love in this world is the most beautiful thing you can do and the most valuable.
“There’s a lot of people that I want to individually thank for making his funeral so special and magical, and I will probably be doing it for a long time. Bless everyone everywhere always.”
Victoria Mary also took the time to assure fans that Shane’s spirit is still with her and she feels comforted by that.
She wrote: “I also want you to know that you really don’t need to feel sad for me because Shane is still very much with me in every moment and I feel very connected with him and I feel enormous love.
“I also feel encouragement from him and I feel his sense of humour and his pure joy. I feel his presence around me as if he is actually a part of me and he is never going to leave me because he is in my heart.
“I love that so many of you are celebrating his music, his life, his warmth, compassion, grace and beauty. It is a powerful thing to witness.”
Shane’s funeral took place on Friday, 8th of December, where his funeral cortege passed through Dublin.
The procession travelled across the city from South Lotts Road in Dublin’s southside, down Pearse Street and on to Westland Row, and then made its way to St Mary’s of the Rosary Church in Nenagh, Co Tipperary for a public funeral mass.
The public lined the streets as the procession took place, singing songs from The Pogues and paying their respects to the music legend.
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