It is with a very heavy heart that we announce the tragic passing of our Senior Player Lorcán Branagan in Sydney, Australia on Easter Saturday 2024.
A very talented dual player for our club, Lorcán left for a winter in Australia in November 2023 and was due to return home for club playing duty in early April 2024.
Our club and community are absolutely devastated at the loss of a wonderful, young gentleman who represented our club with great distinction.
It is even more difficult to comprehend this tragic news, given the untimely passing of Lorcán’s older brother Peárce, our senior hurler, in June 2018.
Our deepest sympathy and prayers are with Lorcán’s family: his father Tony, mother Terri, brother Padráig, sister Caitlín and her partner Lorcán, niece Ríona and the wider Branagan and Hollywood family circle.
We also extend our thoughts to Lorcán’s girlfriend Shona Fitzpatrick and his teammates and friends both at home and in Australia.
Mary Queen of the Gael pray for him. Ár dheis Dé go riabh a anam.
A prayer service for Lorcán and his family was held on Tuesday evening 26th March at 8.15pm in St John’s Ballymaghery, Hilltown followed by a Mass in Sydney (our Wednesday morning).
Lorcán arrived back in Clonduff on Friday 5th April where a tumultuous crowd turned out at Clonduff Club for a very emotional and moving tribute by club members and the general community before proceeding to his home a short distance away.
St John’s Church, Ballamaghery was packed to capacity for Lorcán’s funeral mass on Monday 8th April – he had been carried by his team mates from his home to the church in the pouring rain and was accompanied by players and management teams from across all the codes in Clonduff Club. He was laid to rest in the adjoining cemetery beside his beloved brother Peárce.
Ár dheis Dé go riabh a anam.
