VIDEO: Karen Buckley Funeral: ‘A violated sense of order’

“Karen’s death seems so utterly inappropriate. It violates our sense of order. In our view of life, death and childhood are poles apart, and 24 years simply does not seem the right time to die — it does not seem to add up.”

The words of Fr Joe O’Keeffe summed up the mood of his parishioners in north Cork yesterday afternoon as hundreds gathered for the funeral of Mourneabbey nurse Karen Buckley.

A specially erected marquee could not contain the hundreds of mourners who attended the requiem Mass at the small Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Analeentha, south of Mallow.