Touching farewell to sisters killed in Killorglin fire

THE people of Killorglin, Co Kerry, yesterday bid a touching farewell to two sisters – described by a priest as “gentle souls” – who died in a fire that destroyed their family public house on Monday.

Hundreds of mourners attended the concelebrated Requiem Mass for Rhetta O’Shea McSwiney, 69, and Ann O’Shea, 64, in St James’s Church, Killorglin.

Their nephew, Billy O’Shea, an All-Ireland winning Kerry footballer in 1997, paid a moving tribute to his aunts before the Mass began.