Posted online: Aug 10th, 2010

Several hundred mourners attended the funeral on Thursday last of the Carndonagh bride killed in a freak accident  three days after her wedding.

Caroline Cahalin (nee Farren) died when she lost her footing and fell 20 feet from a bridge at Tul na Rí in Carndonagh in the early hours of Sunday week last. She had been out socialising with friends just three days after marrying husband Tony in Derry’s Guildhall the previous Thursday — her 40th birthday. 


Following the fall she was treated at the scene before being rushed to Letterkenny General Hospital where, despite desperate attempts to save her, she was pronounced dead on Tuesday morning last. Gardai are treating the incident as a “tragic accident.”

Speaking at her Requiem Mass in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Carndonagh, Fr. Con McLaughlin, parish priest, described her death as “sudden and tragic.”

He added: “It is a very difficult time for her family. God only knows what they are going through at this moment.”

Local county councillor Charlie McConalogue, one of a number of public representatives who attended Thursday’s funeral service, said the tragedy had shocked the whole community.

The daughter of   Danny and Patricia Farren, Cashelcraw, Carndonagh Caroline had returned recently to live in Carndonagh after spending a number of years in Scotland.

Following Requiem Mass, she was laid to rest in thea adjoining cemetery.