TWIN BROTHERS CARRY SISTER'S COFFIN
Twin brothers carry sister's coffin
By Gary Grattan
A CATHOLIC priest has spoken of the 'tunnel of darkness' which engulfed people so suddenly bereaved by the Omagh bomb.
Father Sean Hegarty yesterday told mourners at the funeral of Brenda Logue (17): "In the space of a blink of an eye our whole world was turned upside down."
Brenda had been shopping with her mother Mary and her grandmother Philomena when the bomb went off.
She would have received her GCSE results on Tuesday. Mourners heard her described as a gifted young person who was expected to have done well.
She was also a talented gaelic goalkeeper, who played for both her local and county team. Team and classmates wept as they formed a guard of honour outside St Mary's Church in the tiny village of Loughmacrory a few miles outside Omagh.
Brenda's older twin brothers Sean and Cahal helped their father Tommy carry her coffin while her grief- stricken mother Mary and younger brother Karl walked behind.
Fr Hegarty said people had tried to find solace by reasoning that the bombing had been "the will of God'.
But he stressed: "Let us be perfectly clear. God does not will evil. God does not will death. God is a God of love, mercy and compassion."
For Monsignor Father Faul, a former headmaster of a grammar school in Dungannon, the bomb coincided with his first day as the new parish priest.
Visibly distressed, he said: 'Two innocent children have been murdered (he also referred to Gareth Conway from nearby Carrickmore).
"The first principle of society is the God-given right to life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death."
Brenda was later buried in the adjoining cemetery close to where Gareth Conway (18) from Carrickmore was interred.
By Gary Grattan
A CATHOLIC priest has spoken of the 'tunnel of darkness' which engulfed people so suddenly bereaved by the Omagh bomb.
Father Sean Hegarty yesterday told mourners at the funeral of Brenda Logue (17): "In the space of a blink of an eye our whole world was turned upside down."
Brenda had been shopping with her mother Mary and her grandmother Philomena when the bomb went off.
She would have received her GCSE results on Tuesday. Mourners heard her described as a gifted young person who was expected to have done well.
She was also a talented gaelic goalkeeper, who played for both her local and county team. Team and classmates wept as they formed a guard of honour outside St Mary's Church in the tiny village of Loughmacrory a few miles outside Omagh.
Brenda's older twin brothers Sean and Cahal helped their father Tommy carry her coffin while her grief- stricken mother Mary and younger brother Karl walked behind.
Fr Hegarty said people had tried to find solace by reasoning that the bombing had been "the will of God'.
But he stressed: "Let us be perfectly clear. God does not will evil. God does not will death. God is a God of love, mercy and compassion."
For Monsignor Father Faul, a former headmaster of a grammar school in Dungannon, the bomb coincided with his first day as the new parish priest.
Visibly distressed, he said: 'Two innocent children have been murdered (he also referred to Gareth Conway from nearby Carrickmore).
"The first principle of society is the God-given right to life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death."
Brenda was later buried in the adjoining cemetery close to where Gareth Conway (18) from Carrickmore was interred.
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Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/0125
Published Date: 20-Aug-98
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