Tributes to slain Iraqi priest

POPE Benedict XVI and President Mary McAleese yesterday led tributes to an Irish-trained priest who was shot dead in Iraq.

Fr Ragheed Ganni, 35, was killed by unidentified gunmen as he returned from celebrating Mass in his native city of Mosul on Sunday.

Fr Ganni trained at the Irish College in Rome, and also worked at Donegal’s Lough Derg shrine while studying for the priesthood.