Creeslough victim Hugh Kelly had just beaten cancer, funeral hears

Hugh Kelly was born in 1962, the youngest of five.

Creeslough blast victim Hugh Kelly had been told the cancer he was fighting was in remission just weeks before he was killed last Friday.

Mourners at the 59-year-old’s funeral service at St Michael’s Church in Creeslough heard he got the good news following a check-up three weeks ago. Chief celebrant Fr John Joe Duffy said, to knowing looks and smiles from mourners, “he had his fair share of close scrapes”.