Funeral for murder victim Stephen Branigan

A priest who was at the funeral of Stephen Branigan Murdered in a house in county“Culture of aggression and violence” is condemned, he said that “creeping like cancer” through society.

The 56 -year -old was found dead in a house in Marion Park in Downpatrick on Sunday 10 August.

The funeral service took place at St. Brigade Church in the city.

A 30 -year -old man has been accused of killing Mr. Branigan, and Attempted killing a priest,

The priest, Fran John Murray, is in the hospital after attacking to celebrate his final mass before retirement at St. Patrick’s Church in Downpatrick.

Huga Malon, from Belfast but with no fixed residence, Nutounds Magistrate appeared before court On Wednesday.

Distributing to Homili at Saturday’s funeral, Frimothy Bartlett stated that “The Peace of a was brutally shattered by the acts of vicious and insensitive violence on Sunday morning” in a simple summer.

He said, “completely unsafe, this violence was directed against two people, who had just reached to help someone, which they considered in crisis,” they told the congregation.

Fra Bartlett stated that Mr. Branigan “to reach others, go to the neighbor’s house and make a cup of tea, or to paint his house for nothing, or take care of the tomb of the neighbor’s loved one, as he did almost every day of his late wife Dorenda”.

He said, “This was a part of a much more, thoughtful person Stephen Branigan.”

Addressing the previous weekend events, the priest questioned whether things that once make communities strong “are now disappearing.

“I’m the only one that feels that through our families, our towns and our society’s bones, there is a growing culture of aggression and violence like cancer, with nothing and no one is more sacred?

“I’m the only one who craves for a little greater gentleness, a little more citizenship, a little more courtesy, a little more neighbor and the community, and a little more compassion and care?”

In a statement on Monday, the family of Mr. Branigan said He was known as someone among his neighbors and friends who was always ready to help And “whatever is needed to do for the good of others, ready to do”.

A day before he died, he was tend to be for friends’ tombs while visiting the tomb of his late wife, Doranda, “as he did, almost every day”.

Mr. Branigan was remembered as a “cute cute” husband, who was the “very loving” father of two daughters and the “loving grandfather” of six in his death notice.

The family also “thanked those who have surrounded us with such love and care”.