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Terry Enright bronze plaque

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Terry Enright bronze plaque
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Murder ended the life of Terry Enright, a twenty-eight-year-old father who taught disadvantaged teenagers, yet grief turned his loss into a rare bridge across a divided city. Hundreds of young Catholics and Protestants walked behind his casket with flowers and handmade signs, naming him one of Belfast’s greatest. The bronze plaque at St Anne’s Cathedral preserves that sudden unity and remembers Deirdre, Ciara, and Aoife beside the sacred site where the violence happened.
This bronze commemorative plaque records: The murder of Terry Enright, a 28 year old father of two, who worked with disadvantaged teenagers, has been one of the few that literally united, if only briefly, this divided society. Hundreds of young people, Catholic and Protestant, walked behing the casket, carrying flowers and handmade signs in tribute to a man considered one of the greatest in Belfast. Terry, husband of Deirdre and father of Ciara and Aoife, was murdered nearby this sacred site. Recorded plaque organisation: Enright Foundation.
Terry Enright, a 28-year-old social worker killed in Belfast, is remembered for his work with disadvantaged youth and for uniting Catholic and Protestant communities in grief and solidarity during his funeral procession.

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