Gardaí kept a discreet watching brief throughout the sombre, low-key event at the Limerick City undertakers

Joe Carthy was one of five teenagers who died after the car they were travelling in was driven the wrong way down the M9

McCarthy’s death notice details that he will be “sadly missed by parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, loving and heartbroken girlfriend Georgia, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews extended family, relatives and friends.”