Eleanor O'Sullivan follows as her brothers Cathal, Loughlin, Noel and Ronan O’Dowd carry the coffin of their father, Barney O'Dowd, at St Mary's Church in Navan. Photograph: Alan BetsonAn unlikely centenarian was laid to rest in Co Meath on Monday, a few weeks shy of his 101st birthday.
Barney O'Dowd celebrates his 100th birthday at home in Drumree, Co Meath with his daughters Eleanor O’Sullivan and Mary Adams and granddaughter Grace O’Sullivan and sons Loughlin, Cathal and Noel O’Dowd. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Mr O’Dowd was buried at Mountown cemetery, in the shadow of an old ruined church, reunited with his late wife, Kathleen, and his two murdered sons, whose plot he had lovingly tended well into his 10th decade.
Delivering the eulogy, he said: “One of Barney’s grandchildren remarked that a life lesson he learned from him was not to hold hatred in his heart. Barney had every reason to be consumed by bitterness for those who murdered his nearest and dearest. He chose a different route.” Fr McErlean recounted how Mr O’Dowd and his brothers had grown up in the fledgling northern state, which was designed to maintain a unionist ascendancy in which Catholics knew – and were expected to keep – their place.
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