‘There are no answers to this tragic and poignant death and loss of a beautiful life’
A guard of honour was formed by pupils and teachers from the Cavan Vocational School, where Jamie was due to begin her second year after the school holidays.
The teenager’s body was buried at Cullos Cemetery, just outside Cavan town centre.
Friends and family gathered to pay their final respects to the girl whose body was discovered on Friday in the back garden of a vacant house at Harmony Heights, just half a mile away from the Árd na Greine estate where she and her family lived.
During the service at Cavan Cathedral, Fr Kevin Fay said the news had shocked and numbed the entire parish.
“There is a lot of people here today looking for answers but there are no answers to this tragic and poignant death and the loss of a beautiful life,” Fr Fay told the hushed congregation.
He described Jamie as a happy, pleasant and good-natured teenager and expressed his sympathies to her family, who, he said, were engulfed in a nightmare from which they would never wake.
The teenager had been missing for almost a week when her fully clothed body was discovered with no apparent signs of physical attack.
Jamie was from a family of settled Travellers and had three brothers and three sisters.
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