The funeral of one of the three friends killed in a crash on their way home from a day out at the Listowel races on Sunday took place in Co Limerick today.
The funeral of Thomas Murphy (32) - whose brother Michael survived the crash - was held at the Church of St Mary in Carrigkerry.
His friends Richard Feury (37) from Newcastle West and Thomas Holmes (32) from Fenagh were buried yesterday.
The funerals, in three different churches, over the past days have heard how the deaths of the three sensible, balanced and wholesome young men have enveloped the whole area and three separate communities in west Limerick.
As with his friends, a Liverpool jersey and a Limerick jersey were among the symbols of Mr Murphy's life in Carrigkerry.
Carrigkerry parish priest Fr Larry Madden said Mr Murphy, the eldest of seven children, was a sports enthusiast and very family orientated, “with a natural concern for the welfare of others”.
“He would be regarded as sensible, as is evidenced by the fact he took a taxi home,” the priest said.
A colleague from Pallas foods in west Limerick, where Mr Murphy worked for the past seven years, said that he was held in the highest regard.
“He was a decent, honest and gentle person. No job was too big or too small for him and everything was done to perfection. He brought out the best in people,” Jim Halligan said to a round of applause in the overflowing church.
Students from the secondary school at Abbeyfeale, where Mr Murphy had completed his Leaving Cert in 1996, filled a number of rows in the church.