Funeral masses have been held for the youngest victim of the Donegal petrol station tragedy and her father, who died together as they were buying a birthday cake for her mother.
Robert Garwe and his daughter Shauna, 5, were the last victims to be buried in Creeslough, a village in the shadow of the Derryveagh Mountains that has been transformed by the disaster which killed 10 people.
Even by the standards of grief endured by villagers over recent days, the sight of Shauna’s tiny wicker casket being carried into St Michael’s church seemed for many to be close to unbearable.
Fr Duffy told mourners: “Side by side here, we pray that they are side by side in heaven”.
He offered their “most sincere sympathies” to Garwe’s partner Aine “on the death of your partner and your beautiful daughter”, and welcomed family members who had travelled to the service, including some from Zimbabwe.
Symbols representing different aspects of Garwe, 50, and Shauna’s lives were present, including a scooter “which was very much part and parcel of their lives”.
