Funerals held for couple killed in Ballycastle car crash

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Brigid Wilkinson and Owen McMullan

By Q Radio news

The funerals have taken place of a young couple killed in a head on road traffic collision outside Ballycastle last week.

21 year-old Brigid Wilkinson originally from north Belfast was a passenger in the car with her partner of seven years - 25 year-old Owen McMullan from Armoy.

The couple died after their car collided with another vehicle on the Moyarget Road last Friday.

A funeral mass was held for the couple in St. Patrick's and St. Brigid's church in Ballycastle.

(Hearses carrying the coffins of Brigit and Owen arrive at St. Patrick's and St. Brigid's church in Ballycastle)

(Side by side - family members help carry the two coffins into church in Ballycastle)

(The order of service for today's funeral mass for Brigid and Owen)

(Brigid and Owen in happier times)

(Family members are comforted as they enter St. Patrick's and St. Brigid's church in Ballycastle)

(Pall bearers carry one of the coffins up the steps into church)

(The two coffins are brought out of church by pall bearers after requiem mass)

(The aftermath of the fatal crash on the Moyarget Road outside Ballycastle on Friday evening)

 

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