Mass and prayers were said in St Joseph’s Church in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, where Monsignor Shane McCaughey spoke to RTE saying that the local communities, affected by the crash in Co Louth, are absolutely devastated.
He also told the congregation that a veil of sadness had descended on the community, and even across the country as a whole.
Speaking on RTE, Monsignor Shane McCaughey was visibly shaken, almost crying at certain points describing how he prayed the Angelus with the family of Chloe McGee, saying that the pain, hurt and devastation was horrendous.
He said that there no no words to describe what’s happened to the communities over the last number of days.
They have been named as: 23-yr-old Chloe McGee, from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan; Alan McCluskey, aged 23, from Drumconrath, Co Meath; 23-yr-old Dylan Commins, from Ardee, Co Louth; Shay Duffy, aged 21, from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan; and 21-year-old Chloe Hipson from Lanarkshire in Scotland.
