TWO friends of murdered teenager Sheola Keaney bravely expressed what so many of her friends and relatives were feeling as they sat at her funeral Mass yesterday.

MORE than 500 family friends and work colleagues gathered together in silent mourning last night to escort the body of murdered teenager Sheola Keaney to Cobh Cathedral ahead of her burial this afternoon.

A GARDA was killed yesterday after his motorbike collided with a lorry on the main Cork-Dublin road.