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"No other priest would have known Nuala as well as I did."
Fr Peter McAnenly says he could never have imagined that by the end of last year he would be saying Mass at his younger sister's funeral.
Nuala McLaughlin, 43, had tested positive for Covid-19 in late November.
The mum-of-two from Ballygawley in County Tyrone, a social worker with the Western Trust, passed away on 22 December.
Fr McAnenly is the administrator at St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh.
"I have nothing but very fond memories of Nuala over the years," he told BBC Radio Foyle.
She was "caring and warm-hearted", qualities, her brother said, that stemmed back to her early years.