Councillors honour the much-loved Peter 'Porky' Patton

A minute of silence was held at the Letterkenny-Milford MD meeting in memory of the late Peter Patton.

Peter, known as Porky, was a much-loved Letterkenny man who passed away this week.

Mayor Cllr Pauric McGarvey proposed the minute's silence at the meeting in Milford, extending his sympathies to Peter’s wife, Ann Marie, his parents and children, friends, and neighbours.

Cllr Donal Coyle paid tribute to Peter, sharing that he was a close friend of his.

“Peter was a great community man whose heart and soul were in Bonagee United Football Club,” Cllr Coyle said. “He was very popular with everybody, young and old, and had a great, outgoing personality.

“He will be sorely missed by all of us in Bonagee and by his friends and family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.”

Peter was a familiar face at Global Tiles and Bathrooms on Letterkenny's Neil T Blaney Road and would be commonly seen at football matches or helping with their running, primarily St Eunan’s, Donegal GAA or, perhaps more frequently than the lot all down the years, Bonagee United, where he was club person of the year two years ago, fulfilling a variety of roles at Dry Arch Park.

Peter's Funeral Mass will take place on Thursday 12th November at 12 noon in the Church of the Irish Martyrs, Ballyraine, Letterkenny, followed by burial in New Leck Cemetery.