'Gillian, you had a heart of gold', mourners heard at funeral of Cork woman

Gillian Daly, who died after a car entered the River Lee on Friday, June 3. Picture: RIP.ie

Mourners gathered at St Patrick’s Church in Millstreet for the requiem Mass of a beloved mother after her car went into Cork’s River Lee carrying her two young children.

Her two children, Evan and Luke, aged 12 and 10, escaped the sinking car but their mother, 44-year-old primary school teacher Gillian Daly died.