Memories amid the mourning

TWO young girls taken way before their time, two funeral Masses, two slow processions to the graveyard, one community.

Fri, 27 May, 2005 - 01:00
John Breslin, Beauparc, Co Meath

Deirdre Scanlon, a 17-year-old straight A Leaving Certificate student, and Sinead Ledwidge, aged 15, artistic, athletic, academic, were buried in Beauparc yesterday.

More than 1,000 people gathered for the morning Requiem Mass for Deirdre, joining her parents Rose and Pete, sister Catriona and grandmothers Detta and Catherine.

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