Becky remembered as ‘pure gold and a real treasure’

“Pure gold and a real treasure” is how the 11-year-old author of a book about battling cancer was remembered at her funeral Mass in Limerick yesterday.

Hundreds of mourners packed Raheen Church for the emotional farewell to popular local girl Becky Macauley who died on Friday after fighting brain cancer.

Among the symbols of Becky’s short life presented at the Mass of the Angels, was the diary she kept of her illness, The Little Girl with the Big Headache, which was recently published.