Acknowledgement & First Anniversary

8th February 2021

Mary, Aisling and Pete, Dónal and Anna, Conor and Mara, and five adored grandchildren, together with the Neville and Daly families, fondly remember Dan, a loving husband, father and grandfather, on this his first anniversary. We wish to convey our sincere gratitude to all who helped us at the time of Dan’s death, and who continued to support us during the past year. We thank you for your phone calls, texts, Mass cards, Enrolment Masses, letters of sympathy and the many, many online messages of condolence. A very special word of thanks to our kind neighbours and friends in Lahard, Beaufort and in Eadargóil, Béara who brought food and refreshments to our home, or who visited us in order to ease our burden of isolation, while always observing social distancing rules.

We are very grateful to Father Danny Broderick, Father Anthony Jukes and Deacon Conor Bradley for celebrating a very personal Mass for Dan. Restrictions due to Covid limited the Church Congregation to 10 people, but it was consoling for us to know that family members and dear friends, from near and far, were able to join with us online that morning. Thank you, Father Danny, for your visits to our home. Thank you, Maura Reen and Anita, for being with us, your beautiful singing and music enhanced our ceremony.

Neighbours, friends and extended family stood by the roadside in Lahard and gathered at Listry Church. Neighbours, friends and former colleagues lined the route also as Dan’s funeral cortege travelled from his home in Gort-na-Ré to the Crematorium. We thank you all for your display of solidarity and support. We remember with gratitude family members who were with us at the Crematorium. Your presence helped to ease our sorrow at a very sad and lonely time. We wish to express our sincere thanks to the Gardaí who provided a Garda Escort for Dan’s funeral, from Gort-na-Ré onwards through Glengarriff to Ballylickey. Your support and loyalty were greatly appreciated.

We gratefully acknowledge the kindness of ambulance personnel, and the dedication of staff, doctors and nurses at University Hospital Kerry, especially Nurse Margaret O’Callaghan and Nurse Siobhán Uí Nualláin, who cared for Dan during his final hours. Thank you, Michael and Mary O’Shea, Funeral Directors, Killarney, for your professional guidance, help, advice and understanding at a very difficult time. Our sincere thanks to Eamon McGuire also.

Please accept this acknowledgement as an expression of our heartfelt appreciation as we may not get the opportunity to thank everyone individually. The holy Sacrifice of the Mass has been offered for your intentions.

                                            “Ó bhás go críoch, ní críoch ach ath-fhás,

                                              I bParthas na nGrást go rabhaimid”

Dan’s First Anniversary Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, 5th February, in The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Listry, at 11.00 a.m., live streamed on www.milltownlistryparish.com

Burial of ashes will take place after Mass in Aghadoe Cemetery.