Update: The father of one of the two teenage girls killed in a car crash made 'frantic' attempts to save them, a funeral hears
The father of one of the two teenage girls who were killed in a car crash made "frantic" attempts to save them at the scene, a funeral has been told.
Fr John Chester, parish priest of Roslea, led Kiea's funeral mass in the Sacred Heart Chapel in Clones. "She had a great sense of humour, pleasantly mischievous and innocent. She, like her peers, was rarely off the iPhone keeping in touch," the priest said. The teenagers were on their way to a debs ball in Monaghan organised by their school, Largy College.Dlava's funeral took place at Clonskeagh Mosque in Dublin, followed by burial at the Newcastle Muslim Cemetery.
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