Irish Sunday Mirror

Thousands turn out for funeral of tragic ‘Gussie’

- BY DAVID RALEIGH

THOUSANDS of mourners have turned out to pay their last respects to Aengus “Gussie” Shanahan, 18 years after he went missing.

Speaking at his funeral Mass yesterday, the tragic man’s family said he is “no longer frozen in time” from the day he disappeare­d, aged 20, on February 11, 2000.

Gardai announced last month improvemen­ts in DNA technology confirmed fragments of bones discovered on the Shannon Estuary 17 years previously on October 28, 2001, belonged to Gussie. At the time his father Bob, said the news had struck him and his family “like a thunderbol­t”.

Yesterday, thousands of mourners packed into Our Lady Of Rosary Church on the Ennis Road, Limerick City, where Gussie’s cousin, Fr Aquinas Duffy, told mourners the family had finally found closure. He said: “He is no longer frozen in time, aged 20, on February 11, 2000.” “Gussie”

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