Mother describes ‘pain and torture’ of losing sons

“THE happy, bubbly, person I was disappeared that day... As a mother you are not meant to pick out coffins for your children or the clothes they will wear when they are buried.”

Those were the words of Kathleen Kirby who described the nightmare of losing two sons in a car crash.

On April 20, 2005, her boys Paul, 20, and Dave, 18, were killed in an accident on the Midleton-Cloyne road, a little over a mile from their home.