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Rev Gerry Malone Deacon and Fr Richard Behan at the farewell mass for Fr Behan. Photo: Barry Hamilton

Jessica Lamb

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It was the end of an era in the parishes of Blessington and Valleymount last weekend as the priest who saw them through covid presided over his final masses.

Fr Richard Behan had been an ear and a friend for west Wicklow parishioners since the summer of 2015, and in a double blow those parishioners also said goodbye last weekend to much-loved pastoral worker Aine Egan.