Independent, loyal Mairéad ‘was building her future’

Hand-in-hand, the parents of the woman who was stabbed to death at her workplace last week, made their way to the front of the church near the end of her funeral Mass yesterday and paid a loving tribute to their daughter.

Tears flowed in the packed St Eoghan’s Church in Kilmoganny, Co Kilkenny, as Margo Moran, supported by her husband Pete, fondly remembered her 26-year-old daughter Mairéad’s short life and spoke of how much the young woman was loved.

“Mairéad was happy, smiling, loyal, an independent woman, loving her job, building her future,” Mrs Moran said as the hundreds inside the church and hundreds more outside listened on in silence. “As she said herself, ‘you know me Mam, just getting on with my life’.