Glinsk community rallies to bring home local emigrant who died alone

By Jacqueline Hogge

A HAPPY ending is in store for the story of an Irish emigrant who died in the UK earlier this summer, as the local community in his native Glinsk prepare to bring him home to be laid to rest alongside his mother in the village cemetery.
Sean Parker (79) died in England in July, having had no living family when he was admitted to a nursing home in Medway, Kent.
Following his death the local council was obliged to arrange his funeral which, as is the norm in such cases, would have seen him buried in an unmarked grave.
However, because Sean had told those who cared for him in the nursing home that he was originally from Co Galway, officials decided to try to track down his family and friends back in Ireland.

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