A SPECIAL Mass has been held in Sydney for Co Armagh builder Niall Quinn who died in a freak boat accident in Australia last Saturday.
Heartbroken friends of the young joiner from Silverbridge paid respects at an early evening service at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Chapel in the Randwick suburb of the city.
The 24-year-old was knocked unconscious after he fell from a hired boat on the Murray River on the New South Wales-Victoria border in the early hours of Saturday morning.
He had hired the vessel with a group of friends for a long weekend to celebrate Australia Day when it is thought he either hit his head off the lower deck or struck the boat's propeller as he entered the water.
Despite his friends' desperate attempts to save him, a police underwater team recovered his lifeless body a short time later.
A postmortem examination is due to be carried out, after which Niall's family hope to have his body returned home with help from the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust.
There will be a mass for Niall Quinn RIP on Thursday 28th January @ 5.40pm In The Sacred Heart Chapel Randwick. Thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this time. ?? Posted by Cormac McAnallens GAA - Sydney on Monday, January 25, 2016
