Nicola, draped in Tricolour, finally comes home

More than a week after she died in a Tokyo hotel room, the family of murdered 21-year-old student Nicola Furlong were able to bring her body home to Wexford yesterday.

After being flown into Dublin Airport with her coffin draped in a Tricolour at about noon, her body was transferred into a pink coffin at a Gorey funeral home before being driven on to her home town of Curracloe.

The roadway leading to the family home was lined with mourners as the hearse passed with a Garda escort.