VIDEO: Karen Buckley Funeral: ‘Family’s indescribable hurt and pain’

The funeral of Karen Buckley has been told of the indescribable hurt and pain wreaked on her devastated family by an utterly inappropriate death.

Amid heartbreaking scenes in her native Mourneabbey, near Mallow, Co Cork, the student’s brothers placed a photograph of her as a child starting school, as well as her nurse uniform, by her coffin.

Parish priest Fr Joe O’Keeffe told mourners, led by her parents John, 62, and Marian, 61, and brothers Brendan, 32, Kieran, 28, and Damien, 27, that now was a time of tears. Ms Buckley’s local parish church, which holds 300 people, wasn’t big enough for the crowds that turned out to bid her a final farewell, including those who had travelled from Scotland.