Fun-loving and close-knit friends who enjoyed life

IN competitive fields, friendships can suffer but Jane Deasy, Aisling Butler and Eithne Walls weren’t about to let their’s become a casualty.

All through the daunting first days of college life, the stress of heavy schedules, the strain of exams and the ever-present pressure to live up to early promise, they found time for each other.

And when in July 2007 they left Trinity College where they first bumped into each other as freshers, they graduated not just with qualifications in medicine but with first class degrees in camaraderie as well.