‘Quiet, inoffensive man’ remembered at Dooley funeral

Mourners who gathered in “sadness, shock, and revulsion” for the funeral of a murdered Co Offaly man were asked to check in on elderly or vulnerable neighbours.

The funeral mass for Thomas ‘Toddy’ Dooley, 64, at St Mary’s Church in Edenderry, began with the lighting of a candle in memory of the three people murdered last weekend.

Mr Dooley’s body was discovered at his home in Sister Senan Court, Edenderry, on Sunday afternoon. He had suffered head and upper body trauma and his body may have been at the house for a number of days.