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Friary mourns the passing of Fr Fintan

By Sean Moriarty
The Franciscan Friars in Killarney are in mourning after one of their own, Fr Fintan, passed away on Monday after a very brief illness.
Born in Killarney in 1939, Michael O'Shea OFM was educated in Franciscan College, Gormanston, Co Meath.
He entered the Franciscan novitiate in his native town in September 1958 and received Fintan as his religious name.
He celebrated his First Profession on September, 8, 1959.
After studies in Galway and Rome he was ordained to the priesthood in Rome on March 5, 1966.
As well as ministering in various friaries in Ireland, Fintan was part of the Irish Franciscan missions in Chile and later in El Salvador. While stationed in Dublin he was, for a time, chaplain to Dublin Port, and for many years chaplain to CIE Dublin.
He was a member of the well-known MD ‘Mackey’ O’Shea's business family in the town.
Only three weeks ago Fr Fintan paid a visit to his colleagues at the Friary in Killarney.
“He enjoyed his trip home when he visited his family’s businesses and this was a big part of our conversations over dinner at night,” Br Kevin Lynch, the Killarney Friary’s Guardian, told the Killarney Advertiser. “He was booked to come and visit us again in three weeks time.”
Fr Fintan will be laid to rest at Aghadoe Cemetery tomorrow morning (Thursday) following 12pm Requiem Mass at the Franciscan Friary.
He is sadly missed by his brothers Dona and Tim, and sister Peggy (Coghlan), as well as brother-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, grandnephews, grandnieces, his Franciscan Brothers, relatives and his many friends.
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Massive Park Road housing development given green light
A private developer has been given planning permission to build 249 new residential units at Upper Park Road. The development, which will be built on a recently cleared site near […]

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The development, which will be built on a recently cleared site near An Post’s sorting office, will include a variety of properties from five-bed houses to single apartments, along with a crèche and over 500 car spaces and over 300 bike spaces.
The development has been welcomed by local councillor Martin Grady.
“Killarney has a massive housing shortage so this is very positive. It will retain young families in the area, stimulating economic growth,” he said. “After 17 years of different planning applications it’s finally coming to fruition.”
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Several serious incidents in the estate have resulted in several Garda visits in the last week.
Local councillor Martin Grady told the Killarney Advertiser that residents are “living in fear” as a result of very serious incidents in the last week alone.
One house in the estate was badly damaged when fire crackers were placed inside a letter box.
Another house had its windows smashed in over the weekend.
“It’s a major problem,” added Grady after meeting residents there earlier this week.
One of the most serious incidents occurred on Tuesday night.
A passing motorists had rocks thrown at his car while driving along the bypass whch is adjacent to the estate.
Taking to social media, local primary-school teacher Pádraig O’Sullivan posted:
“Travelling home tonight, at 11.05pm on the Killarney side of the bypass our car was hit by a rock – not a pebble – from the Ballydribben side , which hit the passenger door.
“It was centimetres away from hitting the window where my father, who is visually impaired, was sitting.
“This could have caused catastrophic permanent injury to him.
“The Killarney Garda were on the scene within three minutes.
“They can’t be patrolling the bypass all night.
“It comes down to parenting. You should know where your children are at this hour and be able to teach them what’s funny and what ruin a person’s life or cause a fatal crash.“
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