Two neighbouring Fermanagh parishes yesterday finally ended a traumatic week in Lisnaskea.
Four families and the wider community suffered initial shock at the deaths of Anita Swift (16), Danica O'Rourke (17), Jonathan McDonald (21) and Peter Leonard (21).
The disbelief at so many young lives being lost in a single car crash last weekend was followed by numbness, despair, grief. Then came the cruel identification error which led to Danica O'Rourke being buried by mistake in her friend Anita Swift's grave on Tuesday.
Yet for all that, said Fr Ian Fee as her remains were again brought before the altar yesterday, the overriding emotion of the week was an outpouring of love for the dead and the bereaved.
He told the overflowing congregation in Holy Cross Church for her funeral Mass, it was that love which would stand out from the hurt and disbelief after five funerals for four young people.
Turning to the many young mourners crying openly, he commended them for their sense of togetherness and their support for each other at what must have been for some their first encounter with real loss.
Fr Fee, as he had done on Wednesday at the funeral of Peter Leonard in the same church, conveyed the prayers and messages of goodwill he had received from Fermanagh and beyond.
Condolences from President Mary McAleese were conveyed and the prayers of Bishop Joseph Duffy of Clogher were promised.
Personal effects belonging to the final victim to be buried were carried solemnly to the altar by relatives: a photograph of the smiling teenager, her teddy bear, her white line-dancing boots, her trainee beautician's make-up bag and a T-shirt from the summer scheme where she did voluntary work.
Dozens of young people crowded into the church, lining the walls four deep. Teenagers in their school uniforms, others in the GAA shirts in the colours of the Lisnaskea club or the green of Fermanagh.
Some, clearly grief-stricken, managed to complete their prayers of the faithful at the microphone without breaking down.
All generations were there. One elderly lady in black was helped by the bereaved to the coffin to pray silently for a moment. Two teenage girls, surely no older than the girl whose remains were in the church, kissed their finger tips and then touched the coffin as they passed.
The community's sense of loss was palpable. But Fr Fee stressed that, as Christians, their loss was matched by a sense of hope.
He hoped that the cross now borne by the four families and the community would grow lighter in time. He referred to the hope that the four young lives lost by the roadside would now find eternal peace.
The coffin was relayed to the hilltop cemetery overlooking the lakelands amid a light summer shower and great grief.
Hundreds of mourners, including the bereaved from other crash victims' families, left the O'Rourke family at the graveside to bury Danica in private.
A short distance away at the crash site, police have marked out the tyre marks on the road leading to the impromptu shrine which is adorned with flowers, cards and small toys.
A forlorn plea has been attached to the fractured tree near the Moorlough lake beauty spot imploring drivers to slow down. Please, please, it said, let these be the last to die.