WORK COLLEAGUES wearing Argos uniforms formed a guard of honour outside the church at the funeral of suspected murder victim Lisa Doyle yesterday.
Hundreds of mourners gathered at St Andrew’s Church in Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, to pay their last respects at the requiem Mass for Ms Doyle (24).
“I never imagined the light in our life could be so cruelly switched off,” was how her sister Angela described her loss. “Lisa was always so full of good humour, with an ability to make us all laugh even in the hardest of situations,” Angela wrote, in a moving eulogy read out by curate Fr Paddy Byrne. “The last few days have been a living nightmare for all of us,” she continued.
Ms Doyle’s body was discovered by gardaí at 6am on Sunday in an upstairs bedroom of a rented house on High Street, Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow, which she had moved into the previous week.
Originally from Eastwood, Bagenalstown, Ms Doyle had worked as a supervisor at the Argos store in Carlow, as a part-time model, and with the elderly in her community.
“Lisa said to me a week ago, ‘I’m always waking up in my bed laughing and it must be because I’m so happy’,” recalled Angela.
“Those words have acted like a shield around my heart, preventing it from breaking any further,” she added.
“I know that some day when the pain isn’t so great we can remember all the ways she lit up our lives,” said Angela.
Gifts including an Argos catalogue, eye-shadow and jewellery were brought to the altar during yesterday’s ceremony.
Ms Doyle was buried in the Cemetery of the Assumption, Bagenalstown, following yesterday’s requiem Mass.