Thousands of people attended the funerals in Derry yesterday of four members of the McCauley family, who died in a fire at their Glenowen Estate home at the weekend.
The sole survivor of the family, four-year-old Jade, is in a stable condition in Belfast's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, where she is being treated for smoke inhalation.
The coffins containing the bodies of Jody and Deborah McCauley were carried alongside the white coffins containing the bodies of their two sons, Aaron (11) and Ryan (8).
A Manchester United football club top was placed on Aaron's coffin.
Outside St Mary's Church, Creggan, a guard of honour was formed by pupils from the nearby St John's Primary School where the two brothers were taught along with their sister.
Among the mourners were members of the Green Watch fire team from Derry's Northland Road fire station.
Three members were injured as they fought the blaze, which was started by an unattended chip pan.
Also present was fire officer Mr Michael Feeney, a neighbour of the McCauleys, who tried three times to rescue the victims from their home.
At the concelebrated Requiem Mass, Father Stephen McLaughlin said: "There is something unreal about the sight of four coffins laid out in a church, especially when you know that this is a family, a mammy, a daddy and their two young boys.
"They were a young couple who lived for each other and their children, who worked hard to provide for them. Their two little boys were full of life and deeply cherished.
"We have all been shocked and saddened beyond comfort. The hundreds of people who have called to the wake houses and many more who didn't even know the family have been left speechless by the scale of this tragedy," he said.
Father McLaughlin referred to the decision of the children's grandparents to donate Aaron's organs for surgical transplants.
"Hope also springs from this sad occasion in a very powerful way. A few children, who they are we may never know, will have been given a new lease of life because of the generous and compassionate decision of both families to donate vital organs," he said.
After Requiem Mass, the four victims were buried together in the city cemetery.