'Mary Regan got her wish: She came home and is back with her people'

Some 300 people attended when funeral director Rory Healy went on social media and asked locals in Carlow to attend Mary Regan's funeral. Picture: RIP.ie

“She got her wish, she came home and is back with her people,” the priest who celebrated Mass for Mary Regan before her burial in West Cork said on Wednesday.

Ms Regan, 89, from Adrigole in West Cork died on Friday at Hillview Nursing Home in Co. Carlow with no known relatives at the time.