An inquest has opened at the High Court in Belfast into the murder of GAA Gaelic sports official Sean Brown by a loyalist death squad in May 1997. It heard details of the support for the family by the late poet Seamus Heaney, who also hailed from the village of Bellaghy, County Derry. The following is a tribute to Mr Brown written by the poet while in Greece.

 

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