Glenamaddy comes to a standstill

Date Published: 23-Dec-2008

ALMOST a week after the death of Frank Fahy in Glenamaddy, members of the local community stood in the wind and rain outside the church still wondering how this terrible incident could have happened within their midst.

Hundreds gathered inside St. Patrick’s Church in Glenamaddy for the funeral Mass and hundreds more stood with umbrellas, coats and hoods outside as they listened to Fr. Paddy Mooney speak about a darkness having descended on the whole area.

Throughout the funeral Mass, locals expressed the common view that it was a place that they should not have been four days before Christmas and that such a tragedy should not have happened in their community.

And the hope was expressed that they never see anything like this again as around 2,000 people gathered for what was the biggest funeral to take place in Glenamaddy in living memory.

A group of young people dressed in just white shirts and black trousers brought the coffin into the church which was thronged to capacity – so full, in fact, that many had to brave the wind and rain for the duration of the ceremony.

But no one was …