Heartbreaking inquest hears how Shannon Gallagher wrapped presents before taking her own life

A young girl wrapped her Christmas presents and wrote a note to her mum just a short time before being found dead by suicide at a foster home in Co Donegal, writes Stephen Maguire in Letterkenny.

Heartbreaking inquest hears how Shannon Gallagher wrapped presents before taking her own life

A young girl wrapped her Christmas presents and wrote a note to her mum just a short time before being found dead by suicide at a foster home in Co Donegal, writes Stephen Maguire in Letterkenny.

Shannon Gallagher was just 15 years old when she took her own life on December 12, 2012, just weeks after her younger sister Erin, aged 13, also took her own life.

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