Tears for Daniel, 4, who ‘always had glint in his eye’

MOURNERS were told yesterday that a four-year- old boy crushed beneath a thick steel door always had a happy glint in his eye.

They heard Daniel Cleary loved playing at his home in his “Wellies” and jeans. A toy digger was among the wreaths in the hearse with his white coffin.

About 1,200 people grieved with Daniel’s parents Keith and Patricia at the funeral Mass in St Patrick’s Church, Donegal town, where his maternal grandparents, Patrick and Mary Gildea, are sacristans. Daniel has just one brother David, aged two.