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Lauren Harte

Daughter pays loving tribute to Belfast dad 'Papa John' who died from cancer a year ago

A Belfast woman has paid tribute to her father on the first anniversary of his death at the age of 71 after a 14 year battle with prostate cancer.

John McClelland, who died on September 1 last year, was only given three months to live when he was first diagnosed 14 years earlier.

A former railway worker, John and his family were from the Shankill area but both he and his daughter Margaret settled later in South Belfast.

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