Fr Mackin's funeral Mass to be broadcast online

Bohermeen parishioners will be able to say farewell to their beloved parish priest Fr Phonsie Mackin from a distance this evening as his remains leave Millbury Nursing Home in Navan for his parish church in Bohermeen.

Fr Mackin’s remains are due to arrive at Bohermeen this evening at 7pm, arriving there via Liscarton, Ardbraccan, and the New Line, and also passing his former parochial residence. Parishioners will be able to line the route at safe physical distancing from each other, as Peadar Farrelly funeral directors drive the remains passed. 

Kingscourt native Fr Patrick Alphonsus Mackin was one of Bohermeen’s longest serving parish priests, from 1982 to 2009.
Born in July 1928,  he was educated at the Patrician Brothers, Carrickmacross, St Finian’s, Mullingar and St Patrick’s University, Maynooth, where he was ordained on 20th June 1954. His first four years as a fully ordained priest were served in St Augustine, Florida, then in 1959 he served for a few months in Castletown-Kilpatrick parish.  He then spent a few years working with the Emigrant Mission in London before serving in Tullamore parish (1961-63); Milltown (1963-68); Ballinabrackey (1968-78) and Mullingar (1978-82).  He was appointed parish priest of Bohermeen on 1 July 1982 , in succession to Fr Patrick Delany.
He retired in October 2009, to be succeeded by Fr Andy Doyle,  and was residing in Millbury Nursing Home since April 2018.  

Fr Mackin was director of the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes in 1976 until 2003. 

Predeceased by his parents Patrick & Kathleen Mackin (Kingscourt) and his brothers Justin and Gerard, he is survived by his sister, Emma McEvoy (Abbeyleix), brother-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, devoted housekeeper and friend, Olive Lynch, Bishop Thomas Deenihan, Bishop Emeritus Michael Smith, brother priests of the Diocese of Meath, many parishioners, relatives and friends.

Bishop Deenihan will celebrate the Requiem Mass on Thursday at 12 noon, with the Vicars General.  This Mass can viewed on www.churchservices.tv/bohermeen or www.bohermeenparish.ie/our-parish/webcam/