Young Limerick mother's death has 'touched the lives of all communities'

Marguerita O’Rourke died in a hit-and-run just before Christmas

A Picture of Marguerita and her husband at her funeral mass at St Mary's Church Rathkeale over Christmas. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

A Limerick priest who presided over the funeral mass of the late Marguerita O’Rourke — who died in a hit-and-run before Christmas — has described her death as “an unspeakable tragedy”.

Up to 1,000 people packed into St Mary’s Church in Rathkeale on 29 December to say their final farewells to the young mother who celebrated the birth of her first baby Edward with her husband Denis three weeks before her death.