Actor Jamie Dornan has attended a service in reminiscence of his late father Professor Jim Dornan at St Anne’s Cathedral on Sunday, days after the previous physician was honoured on the Sunday Life Spirit of Northern Eire Awards.
Professor Dornan was a famend obstetrician and gynaecologist in Belfast. He died in his house in Dubai in March 2021 after contracting Covid-19.
The service, which was led by the Archdeacon of Belfast Reverend Barry Forde, featured over 600 company, colleagues and pals of Professor Dornan, in a gathering which acted as a service of thanksgiving and reflection.
Jamie joined his sisters Leisa, and Jess alongside his late father’s companion Dr Samina Dornan to pay tribute.
These in attendance heard Leisa describe her father as a “pillar of energy and guiding hand” and the way she celebrated “his genius wit and limitless power for all times”.
Jessica Dornan Lynas stated her father had “impulsiveness paired with generosity” and stated it was her and her two siblings’ “honour of their lives” to be his youngsters.
Jamie Dornan praised his late father for having the ability to “see and convey out the perfect in individuals.”
The service featured performances from the Belfast Group Gospel Choir, tenor Paul Byrom and fiddle participant Cormac Duffin.
Jamie has beforehand spoken about how 2021 was his “worst yr and the toughest” after he was caught in resort quarantine in Australia on the time of his father's dying and due to the pandemic’s restrictions was unable to journey to be at his aspect.
On Friday, Professor Jim Dornan was celebrated for his profession as one of many main obstetricians and gynaecologist consultants to return from Northern Eire on the Sunday Life Spirit of Northern Eire Awards.
Actor and presenter of the award, James Nesbitt stated: “It is a very painful but extraordinary privilege to current this award. Jim Dornan was an excellent good friend of mine.
“I’m talking at one thing tomorrow (Saturday’s Eire’s Future occasion) and the one cause I’m talking at it in Dublin is as a result of Jim fired my creativeness and perception in myself and perception on this place.
“Jim was somebody that I discovered a lot from,” stated Nesbitt, who additionally attended the service in Belfast on Sunday.
“He was somebody with whom I laughed a lot. And he was somebody I used to be definitely not alone in loving a lot.
“He was a rare, distinctive, good, passionate Irish legend.”
Amassing the award in honour of her father, Jessica Dornan Lynas stated: “My father was probably the most wonderful man and Jimmy has paid a lovely tribute to him tonight and this ceremony has paid a lovely tribute to him.
“We’re simply genuinely blown away as a result of we really feel like day by day we might sing his praises from the rooftops and from the mountains of Eire, and it’s beautiful to be recognised like this.
“Dad was honoured in varied methods all through his life however there’s been a darkish cloud over us all actually since he handed, so to have had this fortuitous beautiful information is de facto particular. We’re actually touched as a household.”