Mrs Brown’s Boys star Dermot O’Neill has said his final goodbye to his much-loved wife, Patricia, who passed away last week.

The star – who plays the role of Grandad on the hit BBC soap – revealed last week that his wife, affectionately known as ‘Chickie’, died after losing her battle with cancer.

Patricia was given just months to live after Spanish doctors discovered multiple tumours in her stomach when she went in for a routine hernia operation.

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Mourners, including Mrs. Brown’s Boys star, Paddy Houlihan , right pictured this morning at the funeral of Patricia (Chickie) O’Neill, wife of Mrs. Brown’s Boys star, Dermot O’Neill. Her funeral took place at Dardistown Crematorium …..Picture Colin Keegan, Collins, Dublin.

On Monday, friends and family as well as cast members from Mrs Brown’s Boys gathered at Dardistown Crematorium in Dublin to pay their final respects.

During the service, Patricia’s son Salvador recalled how his mum helped plan her own funeral, even sending off for an end of life planner, which arrived the day she died with, “Sorry it’s your problem now, because I’m dead”, on the cover.

While Dermot was too emotional to speak at her funeral, he revealed after her funeral service how fun-loving Chickie had wanted karaoke for mourners at her funeral reception in the nearby Kealy’s bar off the Swords Road.

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Family members pictured this morning at the funeral of Patricia (Chickie) O’Neill, wife of Mrs. Brown’s Boys star, Dermot O’Neill. Her funeral took place at Dardistown Crematorium …..Picture Colin Keegan, Collins, Dublin.

Dunnes Stores worker Chickie passed away on June 1 in St Francis Hospice Blanchardstown.

The Dublin grandmother only got a shock cancer diagnosis when she travelled to Spain in January to have a hernia removed.

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Actor, Dermot O’Neill looks on at the remains of his wife pictured this morning at the funeral of Patricia (Chickie) O’Neill, wife of Mrs. Brown’s Boys star, Dermot O’Neill. Her funeral took place at Dardistown Crematorium …..Picture Colin Keegan, Collins, Dublin.

However, Spanish surgeons told her they were unable to operate as they found several tumours in her stomach.

Chickie previously told The Irish Sun: ‘If I hadn’t have gone abroad, I’d never have known I had stage 4 cancer. Once they found it, the doctors wanted to send me to another hospital in Spain.

‘They said I might not see my kids for a while. I told them I wanted to come back to Ireland, or I’d never see my kids again.’

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Actor, Dermot O’Neill pictured this morning at the funeral of Patricia (Chickie) O’Neill, wife of Mrs. Brown’s Boys star, Dermot O’Neill. Her funeral took place at Dardistown Crematorium …..Picture Colin Keegan, Collins, Dublin.

Dermot revealed how Chickie had undergone treatment at Beaumont Hospital until being moved to St Francis Hospice Blanchardstown in the days before her passing.

He told the Irish Sun: ‘There was nothing more they could do for Chickie. She had a blockage in her heart that couldn’t be shifted and the chemo had stopped working.’