Beloved Léana to be laid to rest today

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen and his wife Mary Molloy were among several hundred people who sympathised with Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin and his family last night as they began the heartbreaking process of saying goodbye to their beloved Léana.

Mr Martin’s youngest daughter, who was seven and had been ill with a heart condition, died in Great Ormond Street Hospital in London on Friday with her family at her bedside.

Mr Martin, his wife Mary, and their three other children – Micheál Aodh 16, Aoibhe, 14, and Cillian, 10 – accompanied Léana’s remains as they were brought in a little white coffin to O’Connor’s Funeral Home in Temple Hill in Cork just before 3pm yesterday.