COUNTY MOURNS AS TWO CHILDREN DIE.Byline: DECLAN VARLEY THE county of Galway was yesterday mourning MOURNING. This word has several significations. 1. It is the apparel worn at funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the death of some one, and to honor his memory. 2. The expenses paid for such apparel. 2. the deaths of two local children killed in separate incidents. An eight-year-old girl died when she was struck by a van at Cloonabinnia as she was cycling home. And a 13-year-old boy drowned while fishing with a friend outside Callowfeenish village, near Carna. Martin Devane had been standing on a make-shift raft when he lost his footing and slipped into the deep water of Lough Lough (lŏkh, lŏk). For names of Irish lakes and inlets beginning with "Lough," see second part of element; e.g., for Lough Corrib, see Corrib, Lough. See lake. Truscan. Martin's friend, Morgan Morgan, American family of financiers and philanthropists. Junius Spencer Morgan, 1813–90, b. West Springfield, Mass., prospered at investment banking. Mulcairns, raised the alarm and a search began. One local said: "The water in that part is more than 60 feet deep. "It was very dangerous to be out on that craft in such deep water, especially at this time of the year." The search, co-ordinated by the Valentia Coastguard, continued late into the night. It was minutes from being called off when Martin's body was found. It was taken to University Hospital Galway and a post-mortem post-mortem adjective After death noun A popular term for an autopsy, see there carried out. In the second tragedy, ambulance personnel battled to save Olivia McDonagh, from Ower West in Roscahill after she was knocked from her bike. She was taken to Galway's University College Hospital but later died. Gardai at Salthill are investigating the circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or of the collision. |
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