Funeral remembers Detective Garda Dee Finn as ‘life and soul of the party’

A Garda guard of honour forms as the coffin of Detective Garda Deirdre Finn is carried into St John the Evangelist church in Ballinteer, Co. Dublin.

The funeral for a member of An Garda Siochána who died in a boat fire has heard she was “the life and soul of the party”.

Detective Garda Deirdre ‘Dee’ Finn, a well-respected garda attached to Dun Laoghaire Garda Station, died while off-duty in Carrick-on-Shannon in the early hours of Monday.