Emotional service for flood victim

SHE was known for her smile. But friends and colleagues of Celia Ferrer de Jesus, who was tragically drowned when her basement flat was flooded, united in tears at her funeral yesterday.

Some 300 mourners packed into the tiny chapel at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross yesterday for a requiem service for the 58-year-old nurse who left her family in the Philippines to take up a job in Ireland a decade ago.

Among the congregation were Irish and Filipino work colleagues from the hospice.