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Scenes of heartbreak in Burt
30.04.07
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Burt should have been a
place of joyous celebration on Saturday with the
marriage of a self-made local millionaire to his
beautiful model girlfriend. |
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Instead, it was a place
of unimaginable grief as the would-be groom, P.J.
McDermott, bore the coffin of his sister's 24-year
old daughter, Ciara Dunne, while other family
members carried the remains of the tragic woman's
two little girls.
Hundreds of people attended Requiem Mass at 11am in
St. Aengus Church, |
while an estimated
2,000 people filed to the local cemetery afterwards
for the burials.
Meanwhile, the funeral of Ciara's husband, Adrian
Dunne, took place in Boolavogue, Co. Wexford.
Adrian Dunne, 29, was found dead along with Ciara
(nee O'Brien) and their children, Leanne, 5, and
Shania, 3, at their bungalow in Monageer, Co.
Wexford, last Monday.
On Wednesday, the Dunne family and Marian and P.J.
O'Brien came to an agreement that resulted in the
return of the remains of Ciara and her daughters to
her native Inishowen. |
School children from
the nearby national school in Burt formed a guard of
honour for the three coffins as they were carried in
silence inside St. Aengus Church.
Local priest, Fr. Michael Porter, told the
congregation that this was a tragedy that should
never have happened.
"None of us here can even begin to imagine the
anguish and pain that the |
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O'Brien and McDermott
family are feeling this morning as they celebrate
Ciara's funeral Mass. Life for them will never be
the same again," he said.
"And, looking at the three coffins in front of me
it's hard for me to think that it's an adult and two
children we are going to bury today and not three
children because there was such a child-like
innocence about Ciara, that, although she had
developed the body of a woman, she very much had the
spirit of a child."
As the sun set over the plains of Burt, local
people, who should have been speaking of the pretty
wedding of P.J and Natasha, were instead marking
Saturday, April 28th, 2007, as the saddest day in
the village's history. |
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