DIARY: Ruminations, Occasional thoughts & happenings - as they arise
Family Tragedy Friday
22nd November 2000
On this day my beautiful young cousin Uaneen Fitzsimons
was killed.
A dreadful moment for her Parents, Brian and Mary and her
brothers Ciaran and Shane and sister Sharon, along with her wider
family and the many who loved her dearly. There will always be a hurt in
the minds and souls of those who knew her
.
Uaneen, at the age of 29, had made a name
for herself as a tv and radio presenter in the South of Ireland, also
presenting those great annual concerts at Slane. She was destined,
it appeared, for greater things in the world of broadcasting, but when an
articulated lorry skewed into the car she was traveling as a passenger her
life and career came to an abrupt end. What a shame! What a tragedy!
From a human point of view.
The grief
caused by such an occurrence is hard to bear.
Twenty years
ago my little son Tomás Ruarii was crushed to death under the
wheels of a milk lorry, at the age of 1
year 9 months.
Only when such a thing happens do you
fully realise how much of yourself is invested in your children. I
simply did not wish to continue living, and it required great effort to
continue to live and work in such dark sorrow.
By
faith I know that my little son rejoices in the great goodness of
God.
I am certain too that Uaneen, with her wonderful,
smiling personality, also rejoices in the being of God - the essence of
love.
May we too share in this wonder, when we join
them.
My deepest, heartfelt sympathy to Brian and
Mary - and to Ciaran and Shane and their wives, and to Sharon and
her husband. They will miss Uaneen grievously, but as time goes on
perhaps they will rejoice more and more at the thought of her beautiful
life.