Pink ties and ribbons in emotional farewell to crash victim Lucia, 5

They brought 66 balloons to Lucia Cleary’s grave yesterday — one for each month of her life.

Little Lucia died on Christmas Day, exactly a week after she was critically injured in a three-car crash on the M6 motorway between Athenry and Oranmore in Co Galway. She passed away at Temple St Children’s Hospital in Dublin with her family at her bedside.

Fr Des Forde told mourners at her funeral Mass in Renmore that her mother, Lisa, had hugged her tightly immediately after she had passed away.