Fr Brendan McGee (95) with St Patrick's administrator Fr Eugene O'Neill
Photo: The Irish News Belfast has marked the end of an era with the retirement of Fr Brendan McGee after 70 years of devoted service to the people of Down and Connor. Fr McGee – Dean of St Peter’s Cathedral – offered his final Mass for the people in St Patrick’s, Donegall Street on Thursday after 70 years ministering in the city.
Fr Eugene O’Neill, administrator of St Patrick’s, described him as an “inspirational figure to all of us in the parish but also in the house among priests”.
“He was a fountain of wisdom,” he said.