Gunshots fired inside a funeral procession @dingo_1916 pic.twitter.com/KdNIcKTDgS
— Winston Ingram (@winstonrogers8) February 27, 2020
This morning.
Melmount Chapel, Strabane, West Tyrone.
More as we get it.
Update:
@dingo_1916 Heavy police presence outside the chapel pic.twitter.com/vIoEGyOO4l
— Winston Ingram (@winstonrogers8) February 27, 2020
Thanks Vanessa
Update:
Police have released picture of weapons seized during a disturbance at a funeral in Strabane this morning. Three arrests made pic.twitter.com/tHQxVAFkwe
— Julian O’Neill (@julianoneill) February 27, 2020
Tree surgeons?
We may never know.
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The video looks to be that of a smartphone recording off a screen. Anyone find it odd that someone would do that at that particular moment?
I checked the online player for this church to demonstrate that it has a playback feature, and to make you wrong. But it can show only live pictures, so you are right (and likely this is the only time I will ever agree with you).
It is strange they should be filming, yes. The phone user should be easily enough discovered.
G’wan now. You’re warming to me. Admit it.
I imagine that someone who was acquainted with the situation figured that there could be an incident like this, and filmed the feed on spec.
Routine stuff for west Tyrone.
What a bloody stupid thing to say – I’m from that town originally and have NEVER heard of anything of the like before. Educate yourself before making stupid comments
Why do Nordies call it “Chapel”?
good question
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-a-church-and-a-chapel
“the church is the seat of the church as a community with its priest, the chapel is not, the church is consecrated, the chapel not, the chapel can be a dependent structure inside a church or inside another building, the chapel is a place for individual worship without regular service which is characteristic of a church.”
In an Irish context a chapel would always be consecrated and takes a few different forms. The most common form was once a “chapel-of-ease” secondary to the main church of the parish, ie the Parish Church, built when extra capacity for worshipers was needed. Other forms can exist outside of the usual parish structure, such as school or college chapels, or the chapels associated with monasteries and other religious institutions.
Many chapels subsequently gained parish church status in their own right during the twentieth century. Many, if not most chapels have a regular pattern of worship and would be indistinguishable from churches in that regard. A place of individual worship without regular formal services would more usually be called an oratory.
Separation through language.
Is it not a chapel for Catholics or a church for protestants?
Lots of weapons seized too. They must have thought it was a wedding.
Probably just a cultural thing.
Steady now, they’re an ethnic minority now .