Galway town mourns for ferry victim

THE village of Dunmore, Co Galway, was in mourning last night on learning that the Irish woman who drowned in the ferry disaster…

THE village of Dunmore, Co Galway, was in mourning last night on learning that the Irish woman who drowned in the ferry disaster off Indonesia was from the area. Ms Margaret Kilgarriff (32), who worked as a civil servant in Dublin, drowned when The Gurita sank in a storm after leaving Sumatra to make a 15 mile journey to the island of Weh on Friday.

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