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On August 7, 1994, three weeks before the IRA ceasefire, in the picturesque Tyrone townland of Brackagh South near Creggan, horror visited the O Hagan family.
Kathleen O Hagan (38) was home alone with her five young boys. Seven months pregnant, she stayed home while her husband Paddy went out to a function. The family had been concerned that Paddy and Kathleen s home, an isolated bungalow, might be attacked by loyalists, as other republican homes had been.
Roseann Mallon (78) had been killed weeks earlier just outside Dungannon and mother of two Theresa Clinton had been killed in April in Belfast. Republican homes were being targeted and the new reality was that family members were being killed, not just the usually male republican activists.
A man who fought for answers and justice after the loyalist murder of his pregnant mother, and who also lost two of his brothers in accidents, has died suddenly.
Patrick O Hagan (34), from Greencastle in Co Tyrone, endured so much suffering and hardship in his life, including witnessing UVF terrorists shoot dead his mum Kathleen in 1994, West Tyrone MLA Declan McAleer, a family friend, said.
Mr O Hagan fell ill on Sunday and was taken to hospital. He died in the early hours of yesterday. A post-mortem has been carried out and funeral arrangements are being made. The community is devastated to learn of the passing of Patrick O Hagan, said the Sinn Fein MLA.