Deaths of mother and daughter in Donegal crash an ‘unspeakable tragedy’

The coffins of Natalie McLaughlin and her six-year-old daughter Ella are carried to Sacred Heart Church, Carndonagh (PA)

The deaths of a mother and her six-year-old daughter in a crash in Co Donegal are an “unspeakable tragedy” that have brought pain to an entire community, their joint funeral has heard.

Nurse Natalie McLaughlin and her daughter Ella were fatally injured in a collision between their car and a van on the R240 at Glentogher, Carndonagh, on the Inishowen peninsula on last Wednesday evening.