Mourners packed into the Victorian Chapel at Mount Jerome Crematorium on Monday afternoon for a service that celebrated her life, filled with music, poetry, completely satisfied recollections and tears.
The twenty-two yr outdated from Templetown, Cooley, had simply completed her first yr at IADT and began a job in movie manufacturing with Peninsula Tv, when her life was tragically lower quick.
Her father Breffni fought again his tears as he recalled how his daughter had “packed a lot into such a short while”.
“Greta was conceived in a lighthouse in Might 2001, possibly the final particular person to be conceived in a lighthouse, she was born within the Ides of March 2002,” he stated.
“From the beginning she was a straightforward going child, such a smiler and will play peep-a-boo for hours,” he stated.
After attending a nursey with Anne Hosford, she went to a small nation faculty and by fifth class had determined faith was not for her and stayed behind the category studying, and declined affirmation.
“She was the kindest gentlest baby,” he stated, remembering how she would go as much as different youngsters within the playground asking them to be pals..
“She was additionally headstrong and hated unfairness and injustice.”
He recalled how Greta realized to journey a horse, sail a ship and was a incredible fearless skier.
She performed hockey and rugby in Dundalk Grammar Faculty, liked English and biology and used to rehabilitate wild animals, particularly birds.
Movie making and images turned her actual ardour and he knew she was going to be a incredible filmmaker. That they had travelled to Cannes the place her “no eyebrow” section had gone down properly and he or she actually got here into her personal when she began at IADT and met the love of her life, Charlie.
“They had been so completely satisfied,” he stated.
Greta had obtained a job with Peninsula TV and every part was going so properly and he actually thought that some day he’d be writing a really completely different speech with Charlie’s father.
Quoting WB Yeats, he stated “Come away, O human baby! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s extra filled with weeping than you may perceive.”
“And away she has gone and for Greta the weeping is now over She has left it for us to weep”.
Greta’s boyfriend Charlie paid a heart-breaking tribute to his companion, describing Greta as “the perfect factor that each occurred to me. She was such a blessing.”
“I simply want we would had extra time collectively as a result of our time collectively was so good.”
Her finest buddy Mia portray an image of a enjoyable and charismatic younger lady as she recounted their schooldays in Dundalk Grammar Faculty, adventures in the USA, when Greta turned heads along with her cowboy hat and building employee’s garments and boots, and faculty nights out. She was additionally a loyal buddy who “knew the way to have enjoyable and raise the temper and knew what you wished to listen to from a buddy.”
“She was the funniest, sweetest and most caring particular person I do know,” she stated, including that she is going to take consolation in realizing that they’ll by no means run out of tales about Greta.
“She liked us all so superbly.”
Gretta is survived by her mother and father Breffni and Vanessa, sister, Ruth, brothers Jack and Louis, her cherished grandmother Nuala, her beloved companion Charlie and his mother and father Jo and Reece, aunts, uncles, cousins prolonged and pals. She was predeceased by her grandparents Brian, Claire and Augustin.
Greta’s household thanked the primary responders and passers-by who attended to Greta and the employees of St Vincent’s Hospital, Quinn’s Funeral Dwelling, the neighborhood in Cooley and her fellow college students in faculty.
They’ve requested that donations be made to Secure Biking Eire in lieu of flowers.