Absent friends

As we end 2017 with the usual mix of celebration, relief, sorrow, expectation and hope, let us pause a few moments today to think of the 48 people from Kilcullen, or connected to the town, who passed away during the year and whose deaths were recorded on the Diary.

They are Martin Horgan; Mary Caplis; Sr Lelia Baker; Mortimer Shea; Bernadette Sherry; Prudence McGlinchey; Babs Fitzpatrick; Ronan Downey; Denis Melia; Mary Moran; Robert Mills; Bridget Brangan O'Neill; Bernie Nolan; George Conlon; Rosaleen Ward; Tim Aspell; Lily Brennan; James 'Jim' Cullen; Beatrice Dunne; James Bagnall; Sean McCartan; Daisy Lennon; Patrick Farrell; Joseph McTernan; Carmel McDonnell; Tom Lambe; Eddie O'Neill; Betty Kelly; Tony Mallardo; Maureen O'Gorman; Catherine Hartigan; Ivan Motherway; Sheila Murphy; Mick Kirby; Willie Dempsey; Clara Berney; Fr Matt Kelly; Breda O'Toole; Peggy Walker; Anne Joyce-Courtney; Peter Murray-Heyden; Vincent Darby; Noel Brady; Stephen Hayden; Delia Reddy; Donal St Leger; John Moore; and Jimmy Brophy.

To absent friends ...