Dylan Coady Coleman's organ donation has worked 'five or six miracles', funeral hears

Priest tells mourners the ten-year-old had expressed a desire to be an organ donor but that 'sadly, no one thought that it would happen so, so quickly'
The funeral Mass for ten-year-old Dylan Coady Coleman took place at Mary Immaculate Church in Shannon on Sunday. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

The funeral Mass for ten-year-old Dylan Coady Coleman took place at Mary Immaculate Church in Shannon on Sunday. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

Shannon schoolboy, Dylan Coady Coleman (10) “has worked five or six miracles by giving new life and hope” to others with the donation of his organs.

That is according to Shannon co-parish priest, Fr Michael Geraghty who paid tribute to "loving child" Dylan at the end of the funeral Mass at a packed Mary Immaculate Church in Shannon.

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