Donegal crash victim Jamie Diver had applied to join fire service, funeral hears

A young man killed in a road crash in Co Donegal last weekend had applied to become a member of the fire service, such was his desire to help others, his funeral mass heard today.

Jamie Diver, who was in his early 20s, died following a road tragedy in the Gaeltacht village of Gortahork on Friday night last.

Jamie was one of two young men killed when the Suzuki Liana car they were driving in struck the gable wall of a house at Baltoney just before 9.30pm on Friday night last.

His friend Shaun McClafferty, who was also in the car, will be laid to rest following his funeral mass in the same church on Thursday.

Two more of their friends, Josh Montgomery Scanlon and Darragh Lynch, are still in hospital recovering from their injuries.

Hundreds of mourners from Gortahork and the surrounding parishes gathered in the Christ the King Church to say a final farewell to the young man known to his friend as ‘Slicks.’

Among them were Jamie’s parents Róise and Damien, his brothers Ryan – and…

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