The ornate casket containing the remains of Brigid Bernadette Cash is carried shoulder high through the gates of St. Michael’s Church in Gorey this morning on its journey for a final resting place in Gorey Cemetery.
Traffic came to a standstill on Gorey’s Main Street today as the coffin of Brigid Bernadette Cash, who was brutally beaten to death at a Halloween party, was carried shoulder high by family members to Gorey Cemetery where she was laid to rest.
The 20 years old mother of a two year old son was found lifeless on the living room floor of her mother’s house at Warrenstown Walk, Blanchardstown, and Gardaí immediately launched a murder hunt.
A member of the travelling community, Bernadette had been attending a party that continued into the early hours of the morning.
It is understood that the party turned into a blood-bath and many revellers fled the scene, leaving Bernadette to die in a pool of blood on the floor.
Her body was found just before 11 am on Thursday, October 30th.
A neighbour who rang 999 described the scene as “like something out of a Halloween horror movie.”
She had suffered horrific head injuries.
Gardaí arrested a woman in her 20’s, who they believed had been involved in a quarrel with Bernadette, but she was released without charge.
Full coverage of the funeral in THE GOREY ECHO this week.
