Tributes to popular teacher killed in freak accident

A COMMUNITY has been shattered and devastated at the death of a Limerick school teacher in a freak accident, mourners heard yesterday.

They had gathered for the funeral Mass of Maura Horgan, who had taught Irish for many years at St Enda’s Community School.

The 57-year-old died on Thursday after she was hit by the branch of a tree that broke and fell on her after it was struck by a passing truck while she was walking on O’Connell Avenue.