‘Kind, whole-hearted and genuine teenager’ remembered after Monaghan crash

The funeral procession of Kiea McCann (Liam McBurney/PA)

A teenager who died with her best friend on the way to their school’s Debs ball has been described as a “kind, whole-hearted, genuine” girl who “respected others irrespective of race and creed”.

A funeral mass for Kiea McCann, 17, who died in a road crash with her “soul friend” Dlava Mohamed, 16, was held at the Sacred Heart Chapel in Clones, Co Monaghan.