Bomb Victim's Body Arrives from North |
Two thousand people were at the Church of Our Lady Crowned,
Mayfield, Cork, last evening when the remains of Anthony Ahern, St. Joseph's Park, Mayfield, the 17 years old
youth killed in last Thursday's bomb explosion on the Border, were received by An tAth, Sean Mac Carthaig and
An tAth Michael O Riain. The cortege travelled from Enniskillen Mortuary and recieved a garda escort all the
way from the border. In Glasnevin, Dublin, several thousand people turned out to pay their last respects and
on the journey to Cork, stops were made at Urlingford, Droichead Nua, Cashel, Mitchelstown and Fermoy.
Outside the church at Mayfield, a number of uniformed gardai and Special Branch men under Chief Supt.
P. G. Power and Supt. P. O. Connor, were on duty. The church itself was full of mourners and after the
Rosary had been recited, they filed past the coffin and a large number of wreaths were place [sic] in the
church. The chief mourners were the boy's widowed mother and four brothers, Maurice, Thomas, Liam,
and Patrick. The deceased was the youngest of the sons. The funeral will take place today immediately
after 10 o'clock Mass to Carrigaline cemetery. |
Cork Examiner 14 May 1973 |
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