Storm Ophelia victim: ‘Kind, gentle, generous’ cancer nurse recalled

‘Mam left as she lived, she was one of a kind’, Clare O’Neill’s daughter tells mourners

about 9 hours ago Updated: about 8 hours ago

Barry Roche

Cancer care nurse and mother of one Clare O’Neill was killed when a tree hit her car near her home at Aglish in west Waterford last Monday

Cancer care nurse and mother of one Clare O’Neill was killed when a tree hit her car near her home at Aglish in west Waterford last Monday

The sea was calm and clouds were clearing to the east as mourners gathered at the Island Crematorium at Ringaskiddy to remember Clare O’Neill, who lost her life in Storm Ophelia.

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