‘SLEEPING BEAUTY, RIP’

IT was the simple, heartfelt tributes written on Áine Riordan’s white coffin that summed up the deep sense of shock and sorrow felt by young people in the wake of the Co Kerry road crash.

For a day and two nights, teenagers had been calling in their hundreds to the 16-year-old’s home in St John’s Park, Castleisland, where she reposed.

And, while they wept, embraced and comforted each other, they also brought consolation to Áine’s distraught family gathered around her.