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More than 100 people gathered today outside a Dublin church for the funeral of George Nkencho, who was shot and killed by Gardaí last year.
Only ten people attended the funeral at the Church of the Sacred Heart in accordance with Covid-19 restrictions.
But a crowd of more than 100 friends and neighbors gathered outside, some with posters in memory of Nkencho.
The 27-year-old was shot outside his family’s home in Clonee on December 30.
In her eulogy, her sister Gloria described her death as “untimely, unplanned and unwanted.”
She said: “This is in memory of my brother, for everything he stood for, for everything he believed.
“It was untimely, unplanned and unwanted, but it is welcome in the bosom of the Lord.
“He is at peace, he is happy, my family will be at peace.”
He said he was there in memory of his brother.
“Let’s remember him not for what they said about him but for who he is, a brother, a son, a nephew, a best friend, a cousin, a teammate, a classmate, a protector, a partner,” he said.
After the service, the coffin was brought to the Mulhuddart Cemetery draped in the Insaka Glentoran Football Academy flag.
The Dublin football team, which is made up mainly of people of African descent, has a partnership with the Glentoran club in Belfast.
One of Nkencho’s former teammates, Toyosi Shittabey, also died under violent circumstances when he was stabbed in Blanchardstown ten years ago.
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