‘He never failed to draw people into his shadow’

A YOUNG girl whose brother died in a freak weekend accident just 18 months after her father drowned reduced mourners to tears yesterday when she spoke of her heartache and loss.

Brave Louise O’Driscoll prayed for her brother Fintan and father Jerh, who drowned in a fishing accident, to help her and her mother Rose through their grief.

Fintan, 17, was the youngest of three friends who died in a freak accident in the early hours of Saturday morning when their car plunged into the bay below Dunboy Castle, just outside Castletownbere in West Cork.

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