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We remember our 3 Colleagues who have died doing the job they loved in 2007

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A Video Tribute to our Lost colleagues

Photos courtesy News & Media, Music is "Clouds Veil" by Fr Liam Lawton


     


 
 

FF Michael Liston

Firefighter Michael Liston

Foynes Fire Station Co Limerick

Died on duty 25th February 2007

while attending a Road Traffic Collision

Age 48

Foynes Fire Station

 


Sub-Officer Brian Murray

Sub-Officer Brian Murray

Bray Fire Station Co Wicklow

Died on duty 26th September 2007

Fighting a Factory Fire in Bray Co Wicklow

Age 46

Bray Fire Station

 

FF Mark O'Shaugnessy

Firefighter Mark O'Shaugnessy

Bray Fire Station Co Wicklow

Died on duty 26th September 2007

Fighting a Factory Fire in Bray Co Wicklow

Age 26

 

Bray Fire Station

 


Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Everything remains as it was.
The old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no sorrow in your tone.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effort
Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was.
There is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.
All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting,  when we meet again.

Rest in Peace Lads ~ Ár dhéis dé go raibh siad

 

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