"Together And Happy Forever" - Funeral Takes Place Following Tragic Crash

Her partner was also killed in the crash on New Year Eve.

A midlands woman who died in a crash on New Year's Eve is being remembered as a community-spirited teacher with a love of learning.

Westmeath's Saoirse Corrigan - who was a teacher at at St. Clare's College in Ballyjamesduff - was laid to rest in Whitehall, Castlepollard this afternoon.

She and her partner Shane Gilchrist died in a two car collision in Kells last Friday.

Shane will be laid to rest tomorrow.

A number of gifts were brought up during Saoirse's funeral mass to symbolise the most important parts of her life:

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