Village united in grief as ‘full of fun’ schoolboy Tadhg is laid to rest

Tears flowed freely at a requiem Mass as a grieving father paid tribute to his “loving and caring son” who was described as a “popular, generous” teenager who was “full of fun”.

The East Cork village of Killeagh came to a standstill yesterday for the funeral of Tadhg Coleman, a 15 year old Junior Certificate student who died suddenly at the beginning of the week.

Hundreds of people gathered inside and outside St John the Baptist Church to pay their sympathies to his father John, mother Ursula and sister, Kelly on Tadhg’s tragic passing.