A YOUNG girl who died suddenly at a football match yesterday evening will be laid to rest on Tuesday, her heartbroken family have confirmed. Zara Murphy, aged just 13 years old, collapsed after falling ill while playing in a Louth School Girls League match with Termonfeckin Celtic FC U14s. Paramedics rushed to the Termonfeckin FC grounds, where the match against her old club Glen Magic FC was being played, and treated her there.
She was rushed to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda where medics battled to save her life before she was sadly pronounced dead . Zara is the beloved daughter of well-known local referee Brian — who is an active member of Termonfeckin FC — and his wife Angela and the loving sister of Ben. A death notice published online this evening told how the teen "died tragically" yesterday.
It said: "Zara will be very sadly missed by her heartbroken parents, brother, nana Jacinta, granda Joe, aunts Pauline, Brenda and Sinead, uncles Alan, Micheal and Kevin, cousins Claire, Saul, Matthew, Jack, Ana, Caimin, Lucy, Beth, Caitlyn, Jimmy and Marty, her large circle of school friends and team-mates in Soccer, Gaelic and Gymnastics." The youngster is predeceased by her grandparents Jimmy and Nancy O’Brien. Zara will be reposing at her home on Sunday and Monday evening from 4pm until 8pm.
A funeral cortege will leave her home on Tuesday morning at 10.30a.m proceeding on foot via The Glen and arriving to Our Lady of Lourdes Church for Funeral Mass at 11.
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