Flat cap and bingo book: Symbols of the life of quiet gentleman

A FLAT cap and a bingo book — the most fitting symbols for a quiet, country man who loved the outdoors and a game of bingo in the parish hall.

Mourners who packed the small country church at yesterday’s funeral mass for Hughie Friel, 66, who died in Sunday’s horror crash in Inishowen, were told that the pensioner farmer was a “lovely, quiet, pleasant gentleman” and a great neighbour who would do anything for his friends.

Clonmany parish priest, Fr Fintan Diggin said Hughie would be “sorely missed” by his own community and generally in the local parish.