MOTORISTS NEED to learn from the tragic road crash that claimed the lives of two young cousins, mourners at their funeral were told yesterday.
Fr Damien Ryan made his comments yesterday at the joint funeral Mass of 25-year-old Michelle Collins and 18-year-old Ger Hehir, who were killed in a single-car crash in Co Limerick last week.
Hundreds of mourners packed Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Limerick city for yesterday’s funeral Mass where the local parish priest described the heartbreak of having to bury two “lovely young people”.
“We need to live our lives well and we need to learn from this tragedy and I have to be honest – when I was a young fellow myself I didn’t always drive sensibly,” said Fr Ryan.
“But when we look this morning at the two coffins here, we have to recognise, all of us, that when we get behind the wheel we actually have a terrible responsibility, and God forbid that it should happen again,” he added.
At the beginning of yesterday’s Mass an uncle of Michelle Collins, who is survived by her young son Jaden, told mourners that the first cousins “had died how they lived – everyone’s friends”.
The crash happened at 6.45am last Friday on the main Dromkeen to Pallasgreen road in Co Limerick. The victims, who were both living in the Weston area of Limerick city, died after the Toyota Corolla they were travelling in hit a ditch. They were both buried in Mount St Oliver Cemetery in Limerick yesterday.