Killarney

By Michelle Crean &nbsp;
<h3>Killarney town came to a standstill yesterday (Thursday) to pay their respects to a lady who was much-loved in the community.</h3>
Breda Walshe&nbsp;(n&eacute;e Morrissey) from&nbsp;Lewis Road&nbsp;sadly&nbsp;died hours after suddenly becoming&nbsp;ill on Mother&#8217;s day.&nbsp;
Breda, who was&nbsp;married to well known Legion man Enda Walshe, had&nbsp;spent a wonderful weekend with her family&nbsp;including celebrating her father-in-law Cathal Walshe as Grand Marshal in Friday&#8217;s St Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade.
Paramedics arrived to her home within eight minutes of her family finding her unconscious and after 50 minutes of treatment they managed to find&nbsp;a faint pulse. She was&nbsp;rushed&nbsp;to University Hospital Kerry however&nbsp;she&nbsp;sadly passed away surrounded by her family in the early hours of the morning.&nbsp;
Hundreds attended O&#8217;Shea&#8217;s Funeral Home on Wednesday evening and again St Mary&#8217;s Cathedral yesterday for her Funeral Mass which was concelebrated by 12 priests and Bishop of Kerry&nbsp;Ray Browne.&nbsp;
Breda, daughter of Eddie and Kathleen, had five sisters and one brother. She worked in Macs, The Laurels and Murphys&nbsp;before moving on to the presbytery.
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During her Funeral Mass, an emotional Fr Kieran O&#8217;Brien said&nbsp;that Breda loved her job cooking for the priests&nbsp;over the last three years and how &#8220;life will be different without her&#8221;.&nbsp;
&#8220;She made our house a home. Breda&#8217;s death has numbed this community.&#8221;
In tribute to his wife,&nbsp;Enda said that they spent a nice day together on Sunday watching&nbsp;her favourite programmes.&nbsp;
&#8220;On Mother&#8217;s Day we&#8217;d a lovely day.&#8221; Reading a&nbsp;verse from a Barry White song he said Breda &#8220;You&#8217;re my first, my last, my everything&#8221;.
Cathal&nbsp;described her as a wonderful and dedicated mother to her daughters;&nbsp;Rebecca who is studying in UCC, and Amy who is in her Leaving Cert year.
&#8220;She was the daughter I never had,&#8221; Cathal told the Killarney Advertiser.
&#8220;We got on like a house on fire. She was a brilliant person and I never ever saw her in bad form. When June [his wife] passed away she was so strong for me.&rdquo;
Cathal added that Breda made him feel &ldquo;like the most important person in the world&rdquo;, and that he enjoyed their Friday trips to do the shopping together.
&ldquo;She had a sense of humour and a sense of style and she was known all over. She loved her job in the presbytery. She was a human dynamo and treated everybody the same. I will never see anyone like her. I loved her to bits.&rdquo;
Breda will be greatly missed by her husband Enda, her daughters Rebecca and Amy, her parents, father-in-law Cathal, and extended family and friends including her work colleagues.

"Breda's death has numbed this community"

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