"A remote Donegal parish and its Gaeilgeoir priest became near household names last year when the nation awoke on Easter Monday to learn St Mary's Church in Derrybeg had burnt to the ground overnight."
"Fr Brian Ó Fearraigh had been asleep in the parochial house when he was roused before dawn by a frantic phone call telling him 'the church is on fire'. He looked out the back window to see a raging inferno illuminating the sky."
St Mary's Church in the remote Donegal parish of Derrybeg was destroyed by fire overnight on Easter Monday, becoming a significant news story. Fr Brian Ó Fearraigh, an Irish-language speaking priest, was asleep in the parochial house when he received an urgent phone call alerting him to the fire. Upon looking out his back window, he witnessed a massive inferno lighting up the sky. The incident gained widespread national attention, bringing the small parish and its priest into the public eye.
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