‘Quiet corner of heaven got livelier’

Just a day after she should have been celebrating her 19th birthday, Dublin teenager Ana Hick, who died after taking esctasy, was laid to rest following a packed funeral Mass.

During an emotional ceremony, the young woman’s mother Elga described how, when her daughter walked into a room, “you knew she was there, with her big eyes, her big smile, her hands in the air”.

The funeral was held at the Church of the Assumption in Dalkey yesterday morning, followed by burial at Shanganagh Cemetery. It came as forensic analysis of ecstasy tablets, similar to the ones believed to have been taken by the 18-year-old, show they contain MDMA, and not a rogue contaminant.