‘We’ll miss your beauty and lively charm’

A SOLITARY bouquet of flowers lay at the waters edge yesterday as disbelieving neighbours prayed at the spot where the bodies of a mother and her two children were taken from a river in north Cork.

A card on it simply read: ‘We will miss your beauty and lively charm.’

Fr Pat Scanlan, parish priest in the village of Castletownroche, said mass yesterday morning for Ita Noonan, her son, David, and daughter, Emma, whose bodies were discovered last Monday after a tragic triple drowning accident a quarter of a mile form the village.