It was great sadness to hear of the death of Nicholas (Nicky) Brennan 19th December 2015 from Landen Road. When Nicky moved to Ballyfermot in 1948 to his new house on Landen Road along with his mother and sister. He immediately Joined the Legion of Mary, as he was in the Legion both in Dublin and the UK before he came to Ballyfermot. Nicky looked after me and many more young people in the 60s when we joined the Legion of Mary leading us on many outings around Ireland, organizing dances, ballad sessions, and debating society. He also introduced us all to our first dance where we would meet up for reunions, he would be the first on the floor when the slow sets came on not to dance but to make sure we left room for the Holy spirit between the boys and the girls. He was a very quiet man but he could debate with anyone on the Faith he knew, loved, and served. He also served Our Lady of the Assumption Church well, running the shop at the end of the Church, selling the Catholic papers, he was a minister of the word. And was recognised by the Catholic Church by being awarded the Benemerenit Medal which is an honor awarded by the Pope to members of the clergy and laity for service to the Catholic Church. Nicky was also awarded by the Ballyfermot Heritage Group for his voluntary work for so many years by being presented with the Ballyfermot Heritage person of the year for 2005. I have limited knowledge of the saints in Heaven only what I have learned in school. But I knew a living saint in Nicky Brennan. May he rest in peace his great work is recognised by a lot of the Ballyfermot people and the Legion of Mary

Mary Dunne Shelley Shared a memory of Nicky - Ken I met Mr Brennan many years ago , I was visiting home from the states , I went to Mass and after mass went to the gift shop , I was looking for a pioneer pin for an Irish friend of mine also from Ballyer living in the States who was trying to get sober , I had looked all over Dublin at various church's and was told the person had to be there (or something like that) to get the pin , That day I asked the lady in Assumption parish shop and suddenly a lovely gentleman came , he had overheard the conversation and took a pin off his jacket, and handed it to me , I told him I could not take it , he insisted and the lady in the shop told me to take it as Mr Brennan wanted me to .when I came back to the States I gave the pin to my friend , He was very touched that some one from his home town would be so kind and caring . Here we are many years later and that friend has been clean and sober ever since and doing awesome work helping those in a similar situation that he was in. God has a special place in Heaven for Mr Brennan , I have always kept the Faith of my childhood and believe we have another Saint in Heaven to pray to and I for one will be praying to this good and Holy man

Des Daly - I'm the grateful recipient of the pioneer pin - it was freely giving to me. I was born at home on Le Fanu Road. I like to joke that i had to travel 3,000 miles to get sober. But i did not really have to now did I ? When Mary told me the story of Nicky's kindness I was filled with gratitude. God did for me what I couldn't do for myself. We still live in the age of miracles. I got the greatest gift !

Thank you Mary Dunne Shelley for letting me know that was Nicky always at hand helping people I think there is a message in this for us all just a little bit of Kindness


Mary Dunne Shelley - Indeed Ken I only met him once but have never forgotten his kindness and in turn how he helped and touched a young man from Ballyfermot on the other side of the world and his kind act is still at work many years later

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It was great sadness to hear of the death of Nicholas (Nicky) Brennan 19th December 2015 from Landen Road. When Nicky moved to Ballyfermot in 1948 to his new house on Landen Road along with his mother and sister Kathleen. He immediately Joined the Legion of Mary, as he was in the Legion both in Dublin and the UK before he came to Ballyfermot. Nicky looked after me and many more young people in the 60s when we joined the Legion of Mary leading us on many outings around Ireland, organizing dances, ballad sessions, and debating society. He also introduced us all to our first dance where we would meet up for reunions, he would be the first on the floor when the slow sets came on not to dance but to make sure we left room for the Holy spirit between the boys and the girls. He was a very quiet man but he could debate with anyone on the Faith he knew, loved, and served. He also served Our Lady of the Assumption Church well, running the shop at the end of the Church, selling the Catholic papers, he was a minister of the word. And was recognised by the Catholic Church by being awarded the Benemerenit Medal which is an honour awarded by the Pope to members of the clergy and laity for service to the Catholic Church. Nicky was also awarded by the Ballyfermot Heritage Group for his voluntary work for so many years by being presented with the Ballyfermot Heritage person of the year for 2005. I have limited knowledge of the saints in Heaven only what I have learned in school. But I knew a living saint in Nicky Brennan. May he rest in peace his great work is recognised by a lot of the Ballyfermot people and the Legion of Mary

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It was great sadness to hear of the death of Nicholas (Nicky) Brennan 19th December 2015 from Landen Road. When Nicky moved to Ballyfermot in 1948 to his new house on Landen Road along with his mother and sister Kathleen. He immediately Joined the Legion of Mary, as he was in the Legion both in Dublin and the UK before he came to Ballyfermot. Nicky looked after me and many more young people in the 60s when we joined the Legion of Mary leading us on many outings around Ireland, organizing dances, ballad sessions, and debating society. He also introduced us all to our first dance where we would meet up for reunions, he would be the first on the floor when the slow sets came on not to dance but to make sure we left room for the Holy spirit between the boys and the girls. He was a very quiet man but he could debate with anyone on the Faith he knew, loved, and served. He also served Our Lady of the Assumption Church well, running the shop at the end of the Church, selling the Catholic papers, he was a minister of the word. And was recognised by the Catholic Church by being awarded the Benemerenit Medal which is an honour awarded by the Pope to members of the clergy and laity for service to the Catholic Church. Nicky was also awarded by the Ballyfermot Heritage Group for his voluntary work for so many years by being presented with the Ballyfermot Heritage person of the year for 2005. I have limited knowledge of the saints in Heaven only what I have learned in school. But I knew a living saint in Nicky Brennan. May he rest in peace his great work is recognised by a lot of the Ballyfermot people and the Legion of Mary

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Kathleen Kennedy with her daughter Yvonne and her Granchildren. Also Noleen Fowler Ryan Thomond Road , Ann Delehunty O Neill Le Fanu Road, John McGann Kylemore Drive, and Ken Larkin Ballyfermot Drive.

I would like to thank Kathleen, Sean, Yvonne, and children for all their Kindness shown to Noleen, Ann, John and myself yesterday 17th October 2015


Nicky Brennan has served his religion, the Legion of Mary, and Our Lady of the Assumption church well for the last 67 years in Ballyfermot. When Nicky moved to Ballyfermot in 1948 to his new house on Landen Road along with his mother and sister Kathleen. He immediately Joined the Legion of Mary, as he was in the Legion both in Dublin and the UK before he came to Ballyfermot. Nicky looked after me and many more young people in the 60s when we joined the Legion of Mary leading us on many outings around Ireland organizing dances, Ballad Sessions and debating society and keeping us on the straight and narrow I and many more people owe a lot to Nicky Brennan now 92 years. Nicky is now taking a well deserved rest in Listowel Co Kerry with his family and wishes his many friends in Ballyfermot well.


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