Aidan Larkin

Fr. Aidan Larkin who died 31 March 2019, aged 73, led a remarkably varied and fulfilled life. A classics scholar he played a leading role in the development of the SDLP and represented Mid Ulster in Stormont during the Sunningdale period. A barriser, he went on to act as a legal adviser to the Council of Ministers in Brussels. Aged 35 he joined Clonliffe seminary and served in the Dublin diocese and on secondment to Chile. He later joined the Columban Fathers and committed to missionary work.