Family and friends have bid a tearful farewell to Chloe Ferris, the 24-year-old woman who died in a Belfast nightclub at the weekend after a life “filled to the brim with love”, her funeral service has heard.
A large crowd of mourners gathered in heavy rain for her funeral in West Belfast on Thursday. Ms Ferris died in the Lux nightclub in the city centre in the early hours of Sunday.
A post-mortem examination has been carried out but it's understood police inquiries are continuing to determine the cause of death.
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Two men in their 20s have been arrested and questioned by police on suspicion of drug-related offences before being released on bail for further inquiries.
Those gathered at St Paul’s Church on the Falls Road heard Fr Darren Brennan read a statement from Chloe’s parents, where they wished their daughter a happy birthday as she would have turned 25 on Wednesday.
Fr Brennan said: “None of us would wish to be here, in fact, we shouldn’t be here, but we are here. And it’s like even the heavens are in tears as we bring the remains of Chloe Ferris, a beautiful, special, vibrant, blossoming young woman, to offer this mass for the repose of her soul.”
Reading words written by Ms Ferris’s mother Sharon and father Declan, Fr Brennan said the love she was shown “was so great, she had loads to spare. So in her short life, she did indeed share that love. She was so generous with it to all her friends and the people she met throughout her life.”
Ms Ferris’s white coffin bore pink flowers, with some mourners wearing pink bows in their hair. The coffin was carried by her group of her friends known as the “sister squad”.
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