‘I love you so much, even more’

TWO heartbroken parents shattered by the death of their five-year-old daughter in a road accident bid an emotional farewell to their “little angel” yesterday with her words of love ringing in their ears.

Jim and Eileen O’Neill choked back tears as Fr Sean Hanafin read out a thank you card Orlaith had written for them just days before her death on Monday.

“None of my words can make any sense here today,” Fr Hanafin told the hundreds of mourners packed into the Church of the Presentation in Derinagree, perched on a windswept hill in the heart of rural north Cork.

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