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An eerie silence descended on the church yard, interrupted only by the bagpiper’s lonesome drone of Patrick’s Kavanagh’s ‘Raglan Road’ and a newborn baby’s cry, as five hearses crept into Bride Street Church in the heart of Wexford town.

Relatives of the Connors family console each other at the funeral of Thomas, Sylvia, Christopher, Jim, and baby Mary Connors

The convoy made the journey following a funeral Mass at the Church of the Ascension in Balally, Dublin, yesterday, and arrived in Wexford shortly after 5pm. The burial ceremony will take place today at St Ibar’s Cemetery, Crosstown, just outside Wexford town.

A large group of Wexford- based relations of the Connors family lined the barricade, which had been erected in the church yard to allow ease of access for the hearses, to welcome their family to the church which is a special place to the family and frequently the chosen venue for weddings.