Bereaved family’s faith an ‘immense comfort’ following gas death

THE family of hotel gas leak victim Miriam Reidy has drawn “immense comfort” from their faith following their daughter’s death a year ago.

Bank worker Miriam, 35, died of acute carbon monoxide poisoning in her hotel room after attending a cousin’s hen night in Kinsale, Co Cork, on January 9, 2010.

At the weekend, as hundreds of mourners celebrated Miriam’s life at a memorial Mass near the family home in Ballyhahill, Co Limerick, parish priest Fr Gerard O’Leary said the close-knit family — including parents John and Josie Reidy and Miriam’s boyfriend Pio Boyle — had found the inner strength to move on with their lives.