IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Christine Buckley was “a woman of extraordinary courage,” President Michael D Higgins said after her funeral in Dublin this morning.
Speaking after the service at the Church of St Therese in Dublin’s Mount Merrion, which he attended, the president said: “it was appropriate to pay tribute to a figure of such moral strength and purpose.”
He had attended the funeral “to honour her courage”, recalling “the darkness she broke open with the light of her own experience.”
On arrival at the church earlier her remains were received by Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, President of Blackrock College, Fr Cormac Ó Brolcháin, and parish administrator Fr Tony Coote.
Archbishop Martin welcomed “our great friend Christine Buckley, her immediate family and the huge family she helped.”
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