Tributes to slurry pit victim, Diarmuid Twomey, who idolised his two daughters

A man who fell in to a slurry pit and drowned on his way home from a night out was remembered at his requiem Mass as a loving father who “idolised” his young daughters.

The body of Diarmuid Twomey, 31, was discovered on January 28. He had gone missing on December 20 when he failed to return home to Carrignavar, Co Cork, where he lived with his partner Ciara Byrne and their children Lily and Katie. He had been on a night out for his nephew’s birthday and had a tragic accident as he made his way home.

Ms Byrne paid tribute to her partner of five years at his Mass in the Church of the Ascension in Gurranabraher, Cork.