For a woman of words there was no send-off more fitting

A WOMAN of words could have wanted no better send-off than Nuala O’Faolain received.

The novelist, journalist and memoirist was to be cremated, not interred in the earth, so fittingly she was buried in words instead.

They poured from the lips of heartsore friends, embraced the pages of condolence books and bounced around the church walls, provoking laughter and prompting tears as they went.