HUNDREDS OF mourners yesterday attended the funeral Mass of twin brothers discovered dead in their apartment in Limerick city last week.
Photographs of Peter and Kevin Moran, taken on their First Holy Communion day, were placed beside their coffins at St John’s Cathedral, as stories about their “kindness” and “love of sport” were relayed to the packed church.
The 29-year-old brothers were discovered last Wednesday by their mother Margaret and their friend David Coughlan.
Gardaí said they are awaiting results of toxicology tests before confirming suspicions the deaths were drug-related.
Fr Oliver Plunkett told mourners yesterday: “I’m told they were very friendly, loving and affectionate, not only at home, but also at school in CBS Donoghmore for their primary education and later on in St Enda’s Community School.”
A Newcastle United football jersey, a CD and a wood carving were placed beside the twins’ coffins as symbols of their love for sport, music and art and craft.
In an emotional tribute to his sons, Greg Moran told the congregation: “If I have one consolation from this whole situation, it is that they lived their lives as one unit. They came into this world on their own and they departed it at the same time. I firmly know that, if the situation had arisen, where one had to live without the other, that person would not be able to survive they were so close.”