A deluge of sorrow as victims of Clondalkin fire laid to rest

Baby AJ O’Brien never saw the world but it was waiting for him with soft blue blankets and teddy bears and cuddles at the ready.

The teddy he never held and the blanket that never snuggled him sat atop his coffin, a little white box barely a foot-and-a-half long, carried tenderly by two young cousins whose freckled faces he would never see.

Baby AJ was the youngest of the Clondalkin refuge fire victims, still two months away from his birth date when tragedy struck last Wednesday.