Mary Lou McDonald, family, friends and political colleagues attend ceremony at St Paul of the Cross Church Mount Argus before cremation at Mount Jerome
Mary Lou McDonald and her mother, Joan pictured this afternoon at the funeral of Patrick Bernard McDonald, father of the Sinn Féin leader at The Church of St. Paul of the Cross, Mount Argus. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin
Fr Kennedy, chaplain to An Garda Siochána, told the congregation that Mr McDonald’s sisters were very involved with the church over the years and “it is appropriate that we are here to bid Paddy goodbye”. At the ceremony Mr McDonald’s niece Tracy did a reading from Ecclesiastes, “A Time for Everything”. Ms McDonald also did a reading, a letter from St Paul to the Romans, which starts: “The life and death of each of us has its influence on others.”
Along with members and friends of the family those attending the funeral included former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams; Minister for Infrastructure in the Northern Ireland Executive John O’Dowd; party TDs Louise O’Reilly and Dessie Ellis; Independent TD Verona Murphy and Sinn Féin Senator Paul Gavan.
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