Girl killed in Rathkeale hit-and-run was ‘so well-liked’, funeral service says

A girl who was killed in an alleged harmful driving incident in Co Limerick final week was “so liked” and “stuffed with surprise”, her funeral has heard.

Marguerita O’Rourke, née Sheridan, from a well known touring household in Rathkeale, died after a van hit a gate she was standing subsequent to on December 21.

A 42-year-old man is charged with harmful driving ensuing within the dying of Ms O’Rourke, in addition to a number of different expenses stemming from the day in query.

As much as 1,000 mourners attended Ms O’Rourke’s funeral, which happened at St Mary’s Church in Rathkeale.

Household buddy Father Liam Enright stated: “I spoke about Marguerita, I knew her since she was little right here, she was the guts and soul of her household, stuffed with perplexity, stuffed with surprise.

“She liked, like all the women right here, having her hair and make-up performed, after which she fell in love,” he stated. “When she met her husband Denis, they had been like Romeo and Juliet, they liked one another, she noticed nobody aside from him.”

Father Enright stated the loving couple “obtained married right here final 12 months, and a month in the past yesterday they welcomed child Edward into their lives.

“And so, a month after Edward was born, Marguerita was delivered to this church. Everybody liked her, she was so well-liked, her household is well-liked, well-off, and she or he had an unimaginable smile and character,” Father Enright stated.

“We pray that her son will know his mom via the love he receives from all these round him, who will nurture him.”

Father Enright stated the Sheridan and O’Rourke households had obtained the condolences of “so many individuals from throughout Eire and past, in America and England.

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“They despatched messages of help to observe over infants Edward and Denis, in addition to his mother and father and siblings,” Father Enright stated.

Mates of the deceased wore shirts with Ms O’Rourke’s photograph on them. A life-size photographic portrait of the deceased and her husband stood on the finish of a white carpet on the foremost entrance to the church.

A white glass-panelled Mendyka carriage, pushed by two black Friesian horses and eight white shire horses, carried Mrs O’Rourke’s stays from the church to St Joseph’s Cemetery in Rathkeale.

US country-pop star Taylor Swift’s Love Story and US rapper R Kelly’s The World’s Biggest had been performed on a sound system as Ms O’Rourke’s stays left the church.