Mourners bid final farewell to ‘radiant’ Niamh

The offertory gifts were the essential tools of any 19-year-old woman — lip gloss, mobile phone and an iPod.

They were reminders of a “beautiful and useful person” who touched countless lives despite the brevity of her existence, the requiem Mass was told.

Niamh McCarthy died after a freak accident in sand dunes while on holiday in Kerry.