Emotional last lap as parents give thanks for 20 years

PAUL DOHERTY loved “doing the lap” — a local phrase for driving around town, showing off your wheels and having the craic, mourners at his funeral heard yesterday.

On what should have been his nephew’s 20th birthday celebrations, his uncle, Cecil Doherty, was instead paying tribute to the young lorry driver and mechanic at his requiem Mass.

“He was a hardworking young man and he was always pushing to get the job done so that he could ‘do the lap’,” said Mr Doherty.