Peter James Clarke died as a result of an accident, a funeral notice said.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old, from the Creevy Road in Lisburn, passed away on December 23 after an accident several days earlier.<\/p>\n
The Health and Safety Executive has been informed.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the PSNI said: \u201cPolice received a report that a man aged in his 30s had been found with serious injuries in the Upper Mealough Road area of Carryduff on Wednesday, December 17.<\/p>\n
“Officers attended the scene alongside emergency services colleagues and the man was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, he passed away from his injuries on Tuesday, December 23.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe death is not being treated as suspicious at this time and the Health and Safety Executive has been informed.\u201d<\/p>\n
A funeral notice called Mr Clarke a \u201cdearly beloved son\u201d, \u201cdear brother\u201d and \u201cloving fianc\u00e9\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill be loved and remembered always by his sorrowing mum, dad, brothers, fianc\u00e9e, family circle and friends,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
A funeral service will be held at Edengrove Presbyterian Church, Ballynahinch, on Saturday at 11.30am with burial afterwards at Garvary Parish Churchyard, Tempo Road, Enniskillen.<\/p>\n
Tributes were paid online to Mr Clarke with the community saying how they were \u201cdevastated\u201d and \u201cheartbroken\u201d.<\/p>\n
One person posted: \u201cThoughts and prayers with the entire family terrible news, Peter was a gentleman.\u201d<\/p>\n
Formerly a pupil of The High School Ballynahinch, another person said: \u201che was such a character in school\u201d.<\/p>\n
Rowan Lodge Farm Equine Haylage \u2013 a provider of equine haylage based on the Creevy Road where the deceased lived \u2013 posted on Facebook describing him as \u201cA true gentleman and unbelievable friend \u2013 our hearts are broken.\u201d<\/p>\n
DUP councillor Callum Bowsie told the Belfast Telegraph that Mr Clarke will be \u201cmissed by many\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am saddened to hear the tragic news about Peter Clarke, especially so close to Christmas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter was well known in the Ballynahinch area and will be missed by many.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy thoughts are with his family and friends at this devastating time.\u201d<\/p>\n
DUP councillor Uel Mackin also said: \u201cI am so very sorry to hear this sad news. My condolences to the entire family circle. In my thoughts and prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter James Clarke died as a result of an accident, a funeral notice said. The 35-year-old, from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8819,1211,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-655962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-amy-cochrane","9":"tag-antrim-news","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115786179233458760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}