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Updated 12.10pm
AROUND 300 PEOPLE turned out for the funeral of Vincent Ryan in Dublin this morning.
The 26-year-old was shot dead while in a car outside his partner Kelly’ Smyth’s house on McKee Road in Finglas last week.
His funeral mass took place at the Church of the Holy Trinity earlier today, with a strong garda presence in the area, including armed officers.
A guard of honour accompanied Ryan’s coffin, with scenes similar to those at the funeral of his brother Alan Ryan who was murdered in 2012. The men and women in the guard of honour wore white shirts and black ties with lilies on them.
Ryan’s partner Kelly walked in front of the coffin as it made its way to the church, pushing their newborn baby girl Phoenix in a pram.
Friends
When the funeral procession reached the Grange Road, about 15 motorcyclists lined up along the road and revved their engines as the coffin passed by.
A motorbike helmet was also brought to the alter during the ceremony, to symbolise the young man’s love for motorcycles. His boss at the barber shop he worked at also brought up a set of hair clippers and a photograph of Ryan with his baby daughter was held up for mourners to see.
His girlfriend Kelly gave a moving eulogy, telling those gathered at the church what a good father he was, and how their last conversation was about getting married. She said that all of that had been taken from them. Both she and their baby girl would have to live without him.
She said a lot of people had never experienced true love, but she had that with Vinny, and when was taken from her, he took her heart with him.
“It’s so easy to take life for granted”
In his homily, Fr Gerry Corcoran said: “When a family member or close friend dies in sudden and tragic circumstances, our world is turned upside down in an instant.”
We begin to seek answers to questions we have. Why did this happen? Why now? Why Vincent? Why not to someone else? We can be angry with God for not intervening and preventing this tragedy from happening.
“It’s so easy to take life for granted,” he continued.
“We know we all must die, but most of us assume, or at least hope, that it will be when we are old. So when a young person dies suddenly and violently as Vincent has, it is a stark reminder that we should never take life for granted.”
“In this Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has encouraged all of us to look inwardly at our lives before we point the finger at others and then seek the Lords forgiveness,” he continued.
Much has been written and said about Vincent in the media in recent days. But to his family, to those who actually knew him, he was a loving son, partner, father, brother, uncle, cousin and friend. He loved his partner Kelly and the birth of their baby daughter Phoenix just six weeks ago brought great joy and new life to him.
He also spoke about Ryan’s love of cycling and motor biking.
“He played guitar and enjoyed music. He was a non-smoker, non-drinker and never used drugs. He enjoyed watching TV, especially the Discovery channel,” said the priest.
As the mass ended and Ryan’s funeral was carried out of the church, Ed Sheeran’s ‘Photograph’ was played over the speakers. Mourners moved on to Fingal Cemetery for the burial.
‘No retaliation’
In a statement released at the weekend by Vincent’s brother Dermot Ryan on behalf of the family, the Ryans said Vincent was a “staunch and honourable republican” but was not in the IRA when he was shot.
The family stated that Vincent would receive a “traditional republican family funeral”, adding: “For the avoidance of any doubt he will not receive a military funeral.”
They called for “no retaliation” for his murder.
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had a samsung for 2 years, got an iPhone and within half an hour was wondering why i hadn’t had an iPhone all along. Still streets ahead in my opinion.
Both are a waste of money. Huawei all the way.
Siemens C10 all the way.
I think Apple products are far superior to Samsung. Let the games begin!
stupid apple fan boy rejoicing at being over charged for old technology.
Can’t fault them, they do make great products, iPhone 5s is a super phone and laptops are sweet especially the MacBook Air
What do i use my old iphone and ipads for? that cannot upgrade beyound 5.1 ios and therefore are useless all apps are 6 and over. Why do they make devices to survive more than 2 years when they are worthless after that. Thats where they make their billions i suppose.
Its called Planned Obsolescence. Good documentary regarding the above on youtube.
The most recent iPhone that is not compatible with iOS 7.0 is the 3GS, released in 2009, slightly longer than two years. It was compatible up until iOS 6.1.3 as far as I know.
And the iPad only came about in 2010
Still have an iPad 1. Is only on iOS6 but works fine for everything I need it for, i.e. Web browsing, video/ audio streaming services etc.
Cork’s Average Income rises again!
Think I’ll stick with the ol’ Nokia 3310, still going strong after 11 years
I hate that kind of arrogance where Apple think are the only company that are part of the ecosystem, when everything they do is built upon the shoulders of others – Their phones would be useless without the work of Ericsson, NSN & Huawei who share their knowledge to make networks available to all; their ipads and laptops dependant on the internet, built on open standards made available to all, the thosands of websites that are built without any help from apple; Music players built on the backbone of mp3 developers, and the app store built upon the millions of developers who didn’t work on the 10 or so apps that apple have developed.
Like or loathe their products (I like them), Apple as a company are the Disney corporation of the 21st century, and will stiffle creativity and originality through their obsession with cash and patents above openness and sharing. Eventually, they will just be a US only patent trolling company left behind by the rest of the world.
(nb: apologies for the rant)
Totally agree. I like apple products however not a fan of wallet gardens and will therefore not support them.
Giz a lend apple
I wonder how many Chinese lads jumped out of windows because they couldn’t bare to work in apple factories while an American corporate giant makes enough money to cure world poverty….
Foxconn dont just make apple products they make everything xbox one ,Asus motherboards
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Oh go away Declan you miserable sod.
Does it really matter? :P
My god filthy rich.
But can it play snake
Doesn’t make me want my I phone any more..
And have paid €1.95 in tax
Imagine if Irish Exchequer was receiving 12.5% of those super profits in corporation tax every year from Apple Inc?
Currently it’s circa 2%, and the Market Capitalisation of the company is headed towards $1 trillion, with Hard Cash on the Balance Sheet of $150 bn.
Great News for Shareholders, but is it good for Society in general that such cash piles are building up in lots if international behemoths, as a result if low and inequitable CT rates. 10% extra filtering into Government coffers, would go a long way to addressing perceived unfairness of system for “stateless” multinationals. And Governments could apply those extra revenues for productive public works in their respective countries, thereby generating additional and essential economic activity, employment, taxes etc.
The tap of trickle-down economics needs to be turned on fully, to offer more hope to the masses in a broken economic world.
If our government got some of that money we wouldn’t see it anyway all the cronies would be looked after and that’s about it
It’s a year on but well worth a read, first one is Wall Street Journal, the second one is interesting to us as irish people. Of course tax avoidance is all right it’s the non regulated tax evasion that middle men dislike.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324787004578495250424727708
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-reduces-what-it-pays-in-taxes-2013-5
Apple . meh, its easy to see how they have massive profits what with obscene prices apple fan boys suck up to. Apple don’t do much designs in terms of electronics, its mostly outsourced but not to Samsung who rightly told them to fluck themselves.
If the lads up in the dall got their hands on that money they would just squander it
Get a life geeks…
Sent from my pink Tamagotchi
Apple . meh, its easy to see how they have massive profits what with obscene prices apple fan boys suck up to. Apple don’t do much designs in terms of electronics, its mostly outsourced but not to Samsung who rightly told them to fluck themselves.
Sounds great but in reality other ppl bear the loss.
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