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HOLY TERROR Terrifying ordeal for local priests during aggravated burglary By Tamara O’Connell
World Book Day
then I went to my room, while Fr Oliver put the collections in the safe.
“I heard someone running outside TWO local priests who were targeted which was very unusual. Shortly by armed robbers are recovering afterwards a man appeared in my after a terrifying ordeal in Kilcurry. room with an axe.” Kilcurry Parish Priest Fr Vinod Fr Vinod added: “I opened my Kurian and Fr Oliver Stanfield were at home at Kilcurry Parochial House window and shouted for help. on Saturday last when four men Nobody heard unfortunately. I took out my phone to call the guards. broke in that evening. “Then the man with the axe broke the locks on my bedroom door and came in. He asked me to throw my phone on the floor, which I did, and Alana Akenji, Ryan Murray, Setanta O’Connor, and Aoife Murphy enjoying he took it. World Book Day in Realt Na Mara last week. Pupils from the school Continued on Page 2 “We talked for a short time and dressed up as characters from their favourite books.
“It happened around 8.30pm. I came back to the house after saying mass in Fatima on the Castletown Road. Fr Oliver had just said mass in Faughart,” said Fr Vinod.