Organs of Clare crash victim saving lives

The grief-stricken father of road crash victim Darragh Killeen has told mourners his 19-year-old son had given the gift of life to four others through organ donation.

At the funeral Mass at Inch Church on Saturday afternoon, Thomas Killeen told the packed church and hundreds more standing outside that Darragh has given the gift of life to two seriously ill people and to two others where the organ donation has improved their quality of life.

Saturday’s funeral Mass was the second in three days in the Kilmaley-Inch communities as people came together to mourn the loss of Darragh and his cousin Oisín Cahill, 18.