Mourners in Australia remember Carlow's Cian English as 'young man with glint in his eye'

An additional service will be held in the Cathedral of the Assumption Carlow at a later date when his ashes are brought back to Ireland.

Cian’s father Vinny giving the eulogy at his son's funeral.

A family remembered a young Irish man with a glint in his eye and who knew how infectious his smile was at his funeral service in Australia today.

Cian English, 19, originally from, Bullock Park, Carlow Town but who was living with his parents Siobhan and Vinny and older brother Dylan, in the eastern Brisbane suburb of Hawthorne, suffered traumatic injuries when he fell from a balcony at the View Pacific resort in Surfers Paradise at around 3.15am Saturday, May 23.