Declan Donnelly's brother cause of death was a suspected bleed on brain, a close pal has said.
Friend and colleague Father Peter Kyi Maung, who served with Dermott at St Joseph's Church in Stanley, Co. Durham, sad: "He was hardly breathing in the bed, it was so sad. They think he had bleeding on the brain.
The Roman Catholic priest was being treated at North Durham hospital after collapsing in his Newcastle parish.
