‘She never saw the negative in anyone’

MÁIRE BUCKLEY, the retired teacher who was killed in Sunday’s bus tragedy, dedicated herself to helping children in some of Dublin’s most disadvantaged inner city communities for almost four decades.

She was a native of Newcastle West in Limerick but had been living in Donnycarney in north Dublin and is survived by her daughter Angela, who was with her when tragedy struck on Sunday afternoon.

The 61-year-old was a member of staff at Rutland Street National School on the city’s northside for 25 years up to her retirement last September. Since then, she had taken up a new career in alternative therapies.