Friends of the five people who died in the weekend car crash in Buncrana, Co Donegal, gathered at the mortuary chapel in Letterkenny General Hospital yesterday to pay their respects.
The mourners included Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Irish friends.
Fellow workers, friends, employers and local people who did not know the Latvian nationals Aija Porcika (38), her daughter Ginta Veite (19), Marita Kerpe (28) and Danielitis Abartis (23) and Lithuanian man Ricardas Bielskis (35) came to pay their respects in the chapel.
A group of 30 East European workers from E&I Engineering, Burnfoot, where Ms Porcika and Mr Bielskis worked, came with their five Irish supervisors.
Fr Con McLaughlin from Buncrana attended the service with hospital chaplain Fr Declan McCarron and Rev Stuart Wright.
Speaking afterwards, Fr McLaughlin said the events of the previous five days had brought into focus how little was known about the East European community living in the area.