The funeral for John Keenan, 16, took place at the Church of the Resurrection, Ballinfoyle, on the outskirts of Galway this morning.
BOXERS FORMER A guard of honour at the funeral of one of three teenage boys who died when their car entered the water at a pier in Galway at the weekend.
Wojciech Panek’s ashes are set to be interred at Calvary Cemetery, Graiguenamanagh, Co Kilkenny on Friday. Alamy Stock Photo Floral tributes outside the Church of the Resurrection, Ballinfoyle in Galway. Alamy Stock PhotoHe said the church had witnessed many sad, tragic funerals over the years, adding: “But few can have been as profoundly sad and sorrowful as the funerals of two young parishioners and the tragic death of three young people.”
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