Mourners have come together for the funeral of nurse Áine O’Reilly, who lost her life in a three-vehicle collision in Co Limerick, reports Breaking News.
Those attending heard that Ms O’Reilly had devoted her life to putting others first, and that her sudden passing has deeply shaken the local community, reports Breaking News.
People stood quietly in the rain on Wednesday morning as her coffin was brought into St John the Baptist Church in Nicker for the funeral mass.
Ms O’Reilly, aged 33, died in the crash on Friday night, which left one motorist injured while another driver left the scene, reports Breaking News.
The nurse had been travelling to work when the collision occurred on the N24 at Grange West, Boher.
Parish priest Fr Tomas O’Connell noted that the funeral mass was taking place in the same church where Ms O’Reilly had been baptised, reports Breaking News.
He also said that several of her nursing colleagues had made the journey from London to be present.
“We gather as a community in prayer and in grief and, of course, in shock today to pray with and to be with Áine’s family,” Fr O’Connell said, reports Breaking News.
“Áine, indeed, was a person who gave. She gave to her family, gave to her community, her work colleagues.
“Her life was one of putting herself (after) others, and it is so tragic that in the twinkling of an eye that life of giving was taken from her so tragically last Friday,” reports Breaking News.
The priest also asked for prayers for the man injured in the collision and for all others affected by road traffic accidents.
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