‘We’ve all felt the darkness’

Considering the tragic nature of his death, the words of Fr Seamus Houlihan at last night’s removal of the late Shane McEntee were all the more poignant to those in attendance.

“Shane died on the shortest day of the year,” Fr Houlihan told mourners of the 56-year-old junior minister and father of four who took his own life on Friday morning.

“The darkness had almost overcome the world, and God knows, because he didn’t know, and neither did the rest of us, what darkness or issues were working inside him.