Couple who died in Cork house fire 'were and still are soulmates', funeral told
The pair of hearses pause outside the family home on the Lower Glanmire Road in which John and Gabrielle O’Donnell died. Picture: Larry Cummins
A man who celebrated the birth of his daughter in Qatar only to lose his parents in a house fire in his native Cork several hours later told their joint funeral mass that they were not only each other's "soulmates" but his "best friends".
John and Gabrielle O’Donnell died when a blaze broke out in their terraced home in Lower Glanmire Road on the outskirts of Cork city on April 4.
