‘It’s so sad, she was such a beautiful little girl’

Heartbroken girls at Scoil Mháithair Dé in Abbeyfeale cried as a special prayer ceremony took place yesterday.

As they prepared to say goodbye for the summer, they received the sad news that one classmate had died in a road accident in West Cork on Thursday.

Eight-year-old Abbeyfeale girl Zoe Scannell was killed and her mother Alisha was seriously injured in the two-car collision near Owenahincha, Rosscarbery.