Grieving friends weep openly over news reports

THE school attended by missing Dublin teenager, Lynsey O’Brien, re-opened specially yesterday to cater for the large group of distraught friends who were overcome with grief at the news of her disappearance.

The principal of Loreto High School Beaufort, Liz Cogan, decided to open the convent in advance of its official restart after the Christmas holidays next Monday in order to allow Lynsey's friends seek comfort from each other.

The school on Grange Road, Rathfarnham became the focus for friends and schoolmates to gather as they absorbed the shocking news that Lynsey had fallen overboard from a cruise ship in the Caribbean in the early hours of Thursday morning.