'Eileen's light will continue to shine,' mourners hear at funeral of HPV vaccine campaigner

Eileen Rushe with her mother after she was suprised with hundreds of daffodils supplied by Drogheda Dolls on St Patrick's Day this year. Her funeral today heard that "she had a light and a love that she shared freely and generously."

Eileen Rushe had "a light and a love that she shared freely and generously," mourners were told at the funeral today of the brave HPV vaccine campaigner who lost her battle with cervical cancer.

The 35-year-old mother of one was laid to rest on Monday, following Mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth.