Irish priest shot dead in South Africa

AN IRISH priest was shot dead at the weekend in South Africa where he has spent over a decade working with street children.

Fr Declan Collins, a 50-year-old Salesian missionary from Louth, was killed in what appears to have been an attempted robbery.

A colleague, Fr Matthew Agostinelli, found him dead late on Saturday night at his presbytery in the Indian township of Ennerdale near Johannesburg. He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.