Close friend pays tearful tribute to crash victim

A CLOSE friend of 19-year-old Derry O’Callaghan paid a heartbreaking tribute to the Cork city teenager during his packed-out funeral yesterday.

Standing at the altar of St Mary’s on the Hill Church, beside three childhood school photos of the Knocknaheeny native, Niall Collins fought back tears to describe the person in the coffin yards away.

Speaking on behalf of the O’Callaghan family, he said the 19-year-old was a loyal friend whose popularity reached such heights that he would regularly go out with one girl and come home with three more.