Community still in shock over deaths of father and son, funeral told

A Co Armagh community is still in shock over the deaths of a father and son in a crash just two days after Christmas, their funeral has heard.

Peter Devlin and his son Loughlin, from Killylea, were killed in a two-vehicle collision outside the village last Friday.

Four other people, including a baby, were taken to hospital following the incident.

Mourners gathered at the Church of St Joseph in Tynan on Wednesday for a joint funeral for the father and son.

A crowd waited outside the church as a convoy of cars, including two hearses, arrived and the bells rang.

A priest told mourners the community remains in shock following the tragedy last Friday.

“No words of any of us here today can grasp the enormity of the grief and the sense of loss,” he said.

“As a community we’re…