Funeral details have been confirmed for Zara Murphy, the young girl who died while playing a soccer match earlier this week. The talented young 13-year-old girl lined out for Termonfeckin Celtic. She was playing for the club in a School Girls League match on Thursday when she fell ill on the pitch.
She was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, where she subsequently passed away. Her funeral notice on RIP.ie says: "Beloved daughter of Angela and Brian and loving sister of Ben.
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. Predeceased by her grandparents Jimmy and Nancy O’Brien". Miss Murphy will repose at her home on Sunday and Monday evening from 4pm until 8pm.
The funeral cortege will leave her home on Tuesday morning at 10.30am proceeding on foot via The Glen (Football pitch, Yellowbatter) arriving to Our Lady of Lourdes Church for funeral mass at 11.30am.
Burial will take place afterwards in Newtown Cross Lawns Cemetery, Termonfeckin Road. The late Zara Murphy. Photo: RIP.
ie The North East Football League (NEFL) committee have called off all NEFL matches scheduled for this weekend including all ladies’ fixtures as a mark of respect and extended their condolences to the family. .