Mayo crash: Man lost ‘whole family in one go’, funeral of his wife and two daughters hears

David Bowden pays tribute to wife Úna as ‘beautiful, fierce and funny’ mother of ‘two gorgeous girls’, Ciara and Saoirse The coffins of Úna Mary Bowden and her daughters, Ciara and Saoirse , during their funeral mass. Photograph: Joe Dunne

The coffins of Una Bowden and her daughters Ciara and Saoirse are moved from the church. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire “She never made it to the Claregalway disco last weekend,” he added of the girl who excelled at art, all sports and who loved her friends and her two dogs, Daisy and Boo. “Words such as heartache, grief, sorrow do not capture the emptiness, the pain, the unfairness the lousiness of what took place that day just outside of Claremorris,” he said.The funeral cortege leaving the church. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Both Fr Kelly and David Bowden spoke directly to the friends of Ciara, a first-year student in the Salerno Secondary School in Salthill, and of Saoirse who attended Scoil Naomh Bride and Tullykyne National School in Moycullen.

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