Communities unite in grief after triple tragedy

TWO small communities were united in grief yesterday as they tried to come to terms with the deaths of a brother and sister and their friend.

Tearful young people gathered outside the family home of Tom and Mary Frewen in the small hamlet of Curraghagalla, near Mitchelstown, Co Cork.

They, along with 21-year-old Paul Geary, from Marshalstown, which is also near Mitchelstown, were on their way back from the Oxegen Music Festival when the car in which they were travelling was in collision with a lorry near Abbeyleix on Monday.