Victim of Cork street violence dies in coma

Catherine Shanahan plumbs a family’s grief over lost son

SOMETIMES Christian Scully’s mother would look at her damaged son and in her despair ask God to take him.

“Take him God, I’d say, take him, but not today. Not today. And then he took him. He took him today.”

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