It is with feelings of deep sorrow that we announce the death of our dear confrere, Father Martin O’Hare, SMA.
Fr Martin died peacefully in the Bon Secours Hospital, Cork, on Thursday evening, 28 November 2024.
He was born in the Archdiocese of Armagh, Ireland, on 14 January 1951 and was ordained to the Priesthood on 12 June 1976. Fr Martin served in the Diocese of Ondo, Nigeria, before returning to Ireland where he was part of the Provincial Promotion team, living in the SMA House on Blackrock Road, Cork. In 1999, Fr Martin began parish ministry in the Archdiocese of Tuam and, later, in the Diocese of Cork and Ross, where he served in both rural and city parishes.
His Funeral Mass will take place in St Patrick’s Church, Dromintee, Co Armagh at 11am on Monday, 2 December, after which he will be buried with his parents in the adjoining cemetery.
Fr Martin’s Mass will be livestreamed at https://www.facebook.com/people/Dromintee-Parish/
He is predeceased by his parents Felix and Brigid [née Murphy], his brothers Felix, Kevin, Pat and John.
He is deeply regretted by his sister Bernie [Tiernan], his brothers Michael and Gerry, sisters-in-law Bernadette O’Hare, Mary O’Hare and May O’Hare, brother-in-law Thomas Tiernan, nieces and nephews, other relatives, friends and neighbours, the clergy and people of the Diocese of Ondo, Nigeria, the Archdiocese of Tuam and the Diocese of Cork and Ross, and his confreres in the Society of African Missions.
May he rest in peace.