Tributes to Nicola’s ‘childlike joy’

The floral tributes spelled out the words “friend” and “mam”.

She was a friend to many throughout her 26 years, a mam to her newly delivered baby for just one day.

Prayers were said at yesterday’s funeral Mass in Thurles, Co Tipperary, for Nicola Kenny, whose death in a motorway crash on Monday cast a cloud of grief over her family, friends, and community, and shocked the country.