Funeral of Aidan O’Driscoll hears of the ‘futility of violence’

The chief celebrant at the funeral of murdered Aidan O’Driscoll yesterday asked that the father of two be welcomed “onto the shores of eternity”.

The priest also rejected what he called “the futility of violence”.

Before a packed St Oliver’s Church in Ballyvolane on the northside of Cork City, parish priest Fr John O’Donovan quoted Leo Tolstoy and referred to a Charlie Brown comic strip as he outlined how, in both life and death, Jesus had held out his hand to Aidan O’Driscoll.