The husband of Irish Olympian Ciara Mageean was seen carrying her coffin as hundreds of mourners gathered for her funeral following her gruelling cancer battle.
In 2025 she revealed she had been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer, with a likely terminal prognosis.
The athlete died surrounded by family on Sunday aged just 34 after enduring almost 20 rounds of chemotherapy.
Her funeral took place this afternoon in her hometown of Portaferry at St Patrick’s Church.
The former European champion runner married her longtime partner, Thomas Moran, at a ceremony in Co Louth just weeks before her death.
Speaking at the funeral, former Parish Priest
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