GAA: PC's death demeans humanity
The death of Ronan Kerr “demeans humanity”, a senior Gaelic Athletic Association figure said tonight.
The dead police recruit had played for Beragh GAA football team in Co Tyrone.
He was known as a great communicator, someone who was quick with affection and brimming with enthusiasm about his new career, politicians and colleagues said.
Ulster GAA president Aogan O’Fearghail and Tyrone GAA chairman Ciaran Mac Lochlainn said: “It is difficult to comprehend how a young man with the best interests of a community at heart, having contributed so positively to our community, could have been attacked in this way.
“His death demeans humanity and is detrimental to the development of a shared future based on mutual respect.
“In a rights-based society there is no greater right than the right to life and the need to protect it.”
He said the GAA had a long-standing policy of opposition to violence.
First Minister Peter Robinson applauded the Pc’s character and said his mother Nuala brightened when she spoke of her son.
“He was the kind of communicator that came into the room and threw his arms around whoever was there. He came back and talked to anyone – the very kind of person that the PSNI needs, someone that can communicate on the ground,” he said.
