Two sisters buried within two weeks

THE town of Naas came to a virtual standstill yesterday for the funeral of local student Sarah Fitzgerald — the second of two sisters to die within a fortnight of each other.

Mourners wept as Sarah’s parents Tina and David followed her coffin into the Church of Our Lady and St David in the centre of the Kildare town for her requiem Mass.

The congregation heard how the local community was numb at the double grief suffered by the girls’ parents.