Amelia Belle Ferguson (14) died while attending Coláiste na nOileán, a college located in Tír an Fhia in the Connemara Gaeltacht, last Thursday Amelia Belle Ferguson was described as a deep thinker and free spirit . Source: RIP.ie Amelia was a student at Gaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh in Rathfarnham, Dublin The funeral of a teenage girl who died following a medical emergency while at Irish college in a Galway Gaeltacht heard she “brightened the world around her”.
Amelia Belle Ferguson (14) died while attending Coláiste na nOileán, a college located in Tír an Fhia in the Connemara Gaeltacht, last Thursday. Her family thanked everyone who tried to save Amelia – who had a pre-existing medical condition – after she took ill while on a walk at the Irish college. They thanked those at the college, her friends who stayed by her side, the emergency aeromedical paramedics and Galway University Hospital.
Mourners gathered at the Temple in Newlands Cross Cemetery in Dublin for a service to celebrate her life and to offer condolences to her heartbroken parents Suzi and Brian, as well as her younger sister Poppy. “Amelia was the best friend and sister I could ask for. She had the biggest personality and there are so many people here.
.. because everybody loved her,” Poppy said.
“It still feels like she is in the Gaeltacht". Her mother Suzi recalled how the Dublin family-of-four travelled to Galway for a holiday one year when Amelia, so excited to see the beach and .