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Mourners who attended the funerals of Tadg and Diarmuid O’Sullivan, two of the three family members found shot to death on their family’s farm in an alleged murder-suicide, have been told that life and The death of father and son had changed them all and they will never be the same again.
The pastor, Father Toby Bluitt, said people were coming together “to make sense of the foolish,” carrying a burden that not only appears to be, but is overwhelming.
Ann O’Sullivan joined family and friends at St Mary’s Church at Castlemagner in Cork for the funeral mass.
Father Bluitt said: “Pain is never an easy burden to bear and never again when it comes in an untimely, shocking and tragic way.”
With numbers restricted inside the church to 25 due to Covid-19, more than 40 people gathered outside, some lined up at the entrance, others in nearby cars.
Concelebrating the mass was Father John Magner, who ministered to the O’Sullivan family this week when details of the alleged murder-suicide at the family farm in Assolas, near Kanturk, emerged.
In his homily, Father Bluitt said that the darkest hour of creation appears to have engulfed the O’Sullivan family and community in recent days.
He said that today’s gospel speaks of a darkness that will come over the whole world.
Father Bluitt said: “In fact, it seems that the same darkness, the darkest hour of creation, engulfed the O’Sullivan family and the local community here in Castlemagner for the last few days.”
He said that the shock, the numbness, the devastation, was impossible to imagine and the loss of all three lives was incomprehensible.
Fr Bluitt said that Tadg and Diarmuid had touched the lives of many people along the way “as they traveled through life.”
“Their lives and deaths have changed them all and they will never be the same again.”
He said, “So today, gathered in our grief, we don’t minimize the loss of their lives by trying to provide easy answers. Because there are no answers.”
The coffins that carried the two men were carried in a hearse to the nearby Santa Brígida cemetery for burial.
While traveling through Castlemagner, some people stopped in front of their houses and near the village pub to pay their respects.
Hearses with the bodies of Tadg O’Sullivan and his youngest son Diarmuid, who bring their coffins for burial at the nearby St. Bridget Cemetery after the Requiem Mass at their parish church. @rtenews pic.twitter.com/uEHGVUPLHj
– JennïeØSullivân (@OSullivanJennie) October 30, 2020
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