‘Like a rose Tara gave a lot of joy in a short time’

THE only empty seat in the church at the funeral of Irish teenager Tara Whelan, killed in a terrorist bomb attack in Turkey, was her place in the choir stall.

Tara had been holidaying with two friends, twins Lyndsey and Tracey Galgey, in the holiday resort of Kusadasi when the bus she was travelling on exploded.

Yesterday, at St Nicholas Church, Ballyduff, Co Waterford, Lyndsey said of her friend: “Tara was nobody’s enemy, just a friend to everyone.