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06 Oct 2025

Funeral arrangements announced for Limerick mum and her baby after tragic deaths

Funeral arrangements announced for Limerick mum and her baby after tragic deaths

THE FUNERAL arrangements have been announced for the late Marie Downey (née Cullinane) and her beautiful four-day-old baby boy, Darragh.

They will be laid to rest together in Castletown cemetery on Saturday afternoon.

The rosary will be said this Thursday tonight, March 28 at 9pm in her parents’ home in Ballyagran. Reposing at her home in Knockanevin. Kildorrery on Friday, March 29 between 3pm and 9pm.

Removal to St Michaels Church Balyagran on Saturday, March 30 for Requiem Mass at 1pm. Burial afterwards in Castletown Cemetery.

Deeply mourned by her heartbroken husband Kieran, her adored sons and Darragh's big brothers James and Sean, her loving parents Jim and Helen, parents-in-law Tom and Alma, brother-in-law Patrick, sisters-in-law, Una, Fiona, Ellen and Mairead, aunts, uncles, relatives, neighbours and many friends.

May they rest in peace.

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