A friend of Sean Rooney made an emotional vigil to the private’s army barracks yesterday to pay tribute to him.
Aaron Fry laid a wreath for Private Rooney outside Aiken Barracks in Dundalk, Co Louth, where the hero served as a specialist driver. He told The Mirror: “I have known him since I was about 13, he was a good friend.”
Mr Fry, who laid the wreaths with his mother Trisha and her husband Terry Hamilton, said he wanted to pay tribute to his friend. He was one of a number of people who arrived at the barracks throughout yesterday to leave floral tributes for the murdered soldier, who was well-known in the town.
