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\nAmy Doherty was found badly injured on Saturday and died later in hospital.<\/p>\n
Mourners at the funeral of Amy Doherty have been told she had a “magnetic personality” and “would draw people to her by her joyful smile”.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old was found badly injured at a property in the Summer Meadows Mews area of Derry on Saturday and died later in hospital.<\/p>\n
Her funeral mass took place at Holy Family Church in Ballymagroarty, Derry, this morning.<\/p>\n
Parish priest Fr Joe Gormley told the congregation it was “a very sad day for the family of Amy Doherty, a very sad day for our parish and city”.<\/p>\n
He said mourners would be thinking of Ms Doherty’s two children, and would be trying to “make sense of the events of last Saturday”.<\/p>\n
He said 21 March was a day where, for the first time in six months, “the time of light in our days exceeds the time of darkness”.<\/p>\n
However, “the death of Amy brought a darkness, a sadness, anguish deeper than any lack of daylight”.<\/p>\n
\nAmy Doherty was found badly injured on Saturday and died later in hospital.<\/p>\n
He said: “The darkness is, in a sense, deeply intensified when we hear the human story of the beauty of who Amy Doherty is.<\/p>\n
“Amy is a person who has a magnetic personality who would draw people to her by her joyful smile.”<\/p>\n
He described her as a “dedicated care worker” who lifted the spirits of patients at Altnagelvin Hospital, in Derry, during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
“She’d always try and find fun, find humour, particularly in those dark days when people were very afraid,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said she helped people set up video calls and encouraged patients to connect with people outside and enabled “those who maybe hadn’t connected with others for a long time, to begin to do so, and to use the opportunity of Covid to do that”.<\/p>\n
However, he said, the “heart of her care” was her two children, who “are the centre of our thoughts and prayers today and beyond”.<\/p>\n
Fr Gormley said “a new culture” needed to be built “in the city and society and beyond” where “women are honoured, loved and cherished in the same way as Jesus loved, honoured and cherished women who knew he could depend on them when he couldn’t depend even on the disciples”.<\/p>\n
A friend of Ms Doherty, Jasmine, read a poem about her which described her as “the laughter in the daylight” and “the warmth of every room”.<\/p>\n
It also included the lines “Amy is more than how she left us” – “she’s not a shadow, she’s not a number, but she’s the light she gave so free”.<\/p>\n
A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Amy Doherty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mourners at the funeral of Amy Doherty have been told she had a “magnetic personality” and “would draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-366348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}