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Kit carried a golf club to the altar, to symbolise the dead man’s love of the game, and his brother, Mark presented a fishing rod “to remind us of the days Mick went in search of the ‘big haul’ which never came home,” said Fr Carey.
A friend and former apprentice brought a hammer to symbolise Mike’s trade as a master carpenter.
‘Mike was a man who took pride in his work, his friendships and his love. He took three months off at the end of last year to get the house which he and Kit were building off
the ground,” said Fr Carey.
He added that Mike’s sister Anne- Marie had revealed that her brother had gone back to studying Irish.
The 31-year-old’s brother, Mark told a packed church that his family wanted to “thank the coastguard, the gardai and everyone who took part in the search for their profes- sionalism and sensitivity.”
There was another huge gather- ing on Sunday at St Peter and Paul’s church, for the funeral Mass of Joe
O’Callaghan from Tulla. He was the final victim of the Bank Holiday ac- cident in which the three men were drowned after the jeep in which they were travelling went over the cliffs at Doolin.
The 34-year-old Tulla man is survived by his parents, Sean and Phyllis, his sister, Arda McMahon, brothers, Denis and Michael and his girlfriend, Louise as well as ex- KoILeereME-DOODU Aa DELeMsRUCOILO KD
Celebrating the Mass, Fr Martin
O’Brien, said that from “the first shock, despair and feelings of help- lessness at the news of this unthink- able accident, it is quite extraordi- nary, the tidal wave of love, support prayer and sheer goodness that has been called forth from this commu- nity and beyond.”
Among those he paid tribute to were “the truly people on the Doo- lin search and Rescue teams, the gardai for their professionalism and the volunteers,” who helped search or support those involved in the ere DKO OF
Fr O’Brien said that Joe had “a happy-go-lucky attitude that led him to New York, Holland, to Eng- land and home again.
‘He was equally at home on the farm, in the mart, serving behind the bar, in Windsor Castle or Bar- retstown Castle or mixing with friends in downtown Tulla.”