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Sat 12 Dec 2006Nally says he prays for man he shot deadAs he packed his bags in a Dublin hotel yesterday, Pádraig Nally said he often thinks of John Ward, the man he shot dead more than two years ago, and regularly prays for him. "I think of what happened all the time. It is always on my mind," Mr Nally said at O'Shea's Merchant Hotel.He expressed sympathy to John Ward's widow, Marie, and her children. "These 11 youngsters are now without a father. It is a big loss to them."