Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

Mon 04 Apr 2007Mother and children are laid to restThey gripped each other for support at the graveside, a family crippled by grief, at this the end of their longest and most difficult of weeks.As she was lowered into her grave, Ciara Dunne's family each placed a white rose on her coffin and that of her two children, Léan (5) and Shania (3), to signify their innocence and youth.