Niece weds despite bereavement

SISTER JOAN Bowles had been counting down the days to her niece's wedding, but yesterday her relations had to celebrate the marriage without her.

The 59-year-old was killed when her new Ford Focus car collided with a train at an unmanned level crossing on Thursday evening.

She was collecting the wedding cake and flowers for her niece Karyn’s wedding, when tragedy struck at the Woodfarm crossing, on the main Limerick Tipperary road.