Funeral Mass told Majella Duffy’s death on Kilimanjaro was ‘surreal’

Locals in a Cork village who recently attended a charity coffee morning for a woman who was going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could never have anticipated she would become ill and lose her life on the trip, her funeral Mass heard.

Canon Michael Leamy told mourners at the weekend funeral Mass in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Rathcormac, Co Cork, that the passing of Majella Duffy, 35, was “surreal”.

“We all know where we were when the news of Majella’s death came to us,” he said.