Services for victims of bus crash begin today

Funerals and memorial services for some of the five people killed in the Dublin Bus accident are to take place in Dublin and …

Funerals and memorial services for some of the five people killed in the Dublin Bus accident are to take place in Dublin and Kildare today and tomorrow.

A special service for 33-year-old Ukrainian, Mr Vasyl Timinskyy, will be held at 11 a.m. today in St Mary's Church in Lucan. He had moved to Dublin with his wife Svitlana and their 11-year-old daughter Khrystyna three years ago.

The couple were due to celebrate their 12th wedding anniversary on Sunday. They had not intended to stay permanently in Dublin. Mr Timinskyy was planning to return home to the Ukraine next month to pick out a site for his family's new house. His body will now be flown home for burial tomorrow morning.

The remains of Kevin Garry, a 43-year-old Salvation Army worker, will be removed from his home in Leixlip, Co Kildare tonight to Confey Church at 7.30 p.m. Mr Garry had just finished his shift at the Salvation Army's Cedar House Hostel just off O'Connell St and was about to board his bus home when he was killed.

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Mr Garry had worked as a cleaner at the hostel since November 2000. He will be buried in Leixlip tomorrow after a funeral Mass at 11 a.m.

Margaret Traynor (59), from Tulip Court, Darndale will also be buried in Leixlip on Friday after 11.00 a.m. funeral mass.

Teresa Keatley, a 43-year-old mother of three from Sillogue Avenue, Ballymun will be taken to Our Lady of Victories church with burial after 11.30 a.m. funeral mass, also on Friday.

Funeral arrangements for 69-year-old Kathleen Gilton have not been finalised. The mother of four who had been waiting for the number 66 bus with her daughter Nuala.

It is understood that Ms Gilton is one of the seven victims of the crash who were still in hospital yesterday.

The three Dublin hospitals to where the injured from Saturday's crash were brought, have described their patients as being in a "stable" condition.

Three women are being treated in St James's Hospital, one woman is in St Vincent's Hospital, and three of the other injured are being cared for in the Mater Hospital.

Olivia Kelly

Olivia Kelly

Olivia Kelly is Dublin Editor of The Irish Times