“I can’t believe you’re gone pal, I’m honoured to have known you” Derek Martin Tributes have been paid to the motorcyclist who was tragically killed on Dublin’s M50 last week ahead of his funeral this weekend. Derek Martin passed away following the collision on the motorway last Friday, May 17. On his death notice on RIP.
ie it states that Derek, of Santry and the Irish Prison Service, who (died) following a tragic accident, was the “beloved husband of Vanessa and adoring father of Caitlin and Reece”. The notice reads: “Very sadly missed by his heartbroken family, his parents Ethel and Derek, sisters Michelle, Jennifer and Helen, mother-in-law and father-in-law Marie and Brendan, brothers-in-law Neil, Brendan, Mark, Graham, Nigel and their partners, his aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, extended family from Liverpool, his best friend Noel, colleagues from the Irish Prison Service, and his many friends.” Derek will be reposing at the Kirwan Funeral Home, Ballygall Road West on Sunday May 26 with a gathering of family and friends from 2pm to 4pm.
All are welcome. His removal on Monday morning to the Church of Our Lady of Victories, Ballymun Road for 10am Requiem Mass will be followed by a funeral service at Dardistown Crematorium. The family has asked for donations, in lieu, to Crumlin’s Children Hospital, “which was very close to Derek’s heart”.
In the condolences section people have left numerous messages of sympathy including on that reads: “Ethel,.
