Hundreds attend GAA boy's funeral

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Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral Mass of ten-year-old Patrick Breen in Drumquin in County Tyrone.

The schoolboy died on Tuesday during a GAA training session. It was later discovered that Patrick had a heart defect.

His coffin was carried into the church covered in red and white flowers, the colours of the County Tyrone team.

GAA members and team-mates who were with him when he died formed a guard of honour.

The parish priest said GAA "was Patrick's love" and he had hoped one day to play for his county.

He said no-one could have foreseen what happened.

The priest said what his team-mates had gone through on Tuesday was traumatic but they should keep playing Gaelic football because that was what Patrick would have wanted.