THE FUNERAL of Olive Quaid takes place today (Tuesday) at Bride Street Church at noon.

Mrs. Quaid, who passed away peacefully on Sunday afternoon, was the wife of well known detective garda Seamus Quaid who was killed in the line of duty on October 13, 1980.

The mother-of-four will be laid to rest in St. Ibar’s Cemetery following the funeral mass and donations, if desired, can be forwarded to Wexford Hospice Homecare.

Detective Garda Quaid had been investigating bank robberies in Co. Kilkenny when he stopped a van in Cleariestown driven by a known member of the Provisional IRA. The van was searched and explosives were discovered which lead the driver to open fire. The Wexford detective sustained fatal injuries. He had been a member of the Wexford hurling team in his earlier years.

Mrs. Quaid is predeceased by her husband Seamus and is survived by her children Mary, Caroline, Eamon and Angela, her sister Madeleine, brother Teddy, extended family, friends and neighbours.

The Echo extends its sympathy to the bereaved.