Father of bride dies at wedding celebration

A stunned bride watched as her father collapsed on the dance floor and later died from a heart attack at the height of her weekend wedding celebrations.

Quin village native Karen O’Brien was sharing the dance floor on Saturday night with her 70-year-old father Tommy O’Brien and the wedding party when he collapsed shortly after the band started playing.

Hours earlier, the Clare man had walked his only daughter up the aisle at Quin Church to marry Mike O’Halloran.