Michael ‘Mikey’ Brown (22) was pronounced dead at the scene follow a two-vehicle collision on the Lurgan Road, Co Antrim on Saturday.

Layla Douglas , also in her 20s, also died in the same vehicle in what was described as “a terrible tragedy for the community.”

Michael is survived by parents Michael and Theresa, his siblings Lilly, Becky and Helen and the late Luke Martin as well as his aunties and uncles. Michael was also an uncle to two nephews and two nieces.

St Joseph’s Church in Glenavy was adorned with several blue-flowered garlands as Fr Colm McBride lead the proceedings.

“This has been an extraordinary, desperately sad occasion and not something that any of us expected to be here on this day doing what we're about to do,” Fr McBride told mourners. “I commend this young man to

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