Tributes paid to nine-year-old crash victim

PINK and white roses were held by family and classmates of young Michaela Logan who was killed in Monday night’s single-vehicle crash near Edgeworthstown, Co Longford.

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Kilcock, Co Kildare, yesterday for nine-year-old Michaela’s funeral. Written tributes to the schoolgirl adorned the porch of St Choca’s Church where the emotional ceremony took place.

Addressing the congregation, the Kilcock and Newtown Parish Priest Fr PJ Byrne said the funeral service was an opportunity to offer “perfect peace” to Michaela before members of her family placed gifts including a Dolly Parton album, a recorder and a family portrait as well as her favourite toy, a Bratz doll, on her pink coffin.