The funeral has taken place of Joe and Claire Collins in Co Clare.
Hundreds of people attended Requiem Mass at St Brigid's Church in Corofin after the suspected murder-suicide last Thursday.
Joe and Claire are survived by their two adult daughters Sara and Tara and had recently become grandparents for the first time to baby Rian.
A visibly heartbroken Sara spoke about her parents at the joint funeral mass, and described how they would give her and Tara a lot of advice over the years.
"One thing I always remember Dad saying over the years was if you were to write a book or a story, the lives of your parents would be just one chapter."
"So I just wrote a poem to close that chapter and what a lovely and beautiful chapter it was."
The words of the poem read: "Mum and Dad we love you we want you both to know - it was always so easy to be just us four. But it is so, so hard to let you go"
Sara said she and her sister would miss both their parents today and tomorrow and every day but nothing can be done to end their painful sorrow.
"We love you both to the moon and back....if we could bring you back we would hug you both forever....what we wouldn't give to have one more of those happy, happy days with you"
Sara said her mother showed them how to be gentle, loving and kind. Her father showed how proud he was of his two daughters.
Symbols were brought to the altar including a book by Claire's mother Angela to reflect a shared love of reading by mother and daughter.
A helmet was brought up next to symbolise Joe's passion for cycling and his love of the local Dolmen Cycling Club.
A photo of the family dog Buddy was also displayed. The Springer Spaniel accompanied Claire and Joe on their regular walks along the boreen and woods around their home in Kilnaboy.
Joe's brother Brian said there was love and happiness and fun in their 30 years of married life together.
He said Sara and Tara were a credit to them and Sara's baby Rian and partner, Michael was their pride and joy.
He praised the local gardaí for their professionalism and sensitivity and thanked the local communities of Kilnaboy, Corofin and beyond.
Fr. Des Hillery said that two families had been plunged into turbulence and confusion and their lives would never be the same again. He used the analogy of the local River Fergus to reflect that turbulence
"The river Fergus flows through our beautiful countryside of Kilnaboy and Corofin, most of the time we take it for granted but occasionally sometimes abruptly we stop to acknowledge its presence.
"The mystery as to its source gives way to a stream swelling to become a river, then an estuary, eventually into the sea.
"Much of the course of the river appears calm but there are stages when the calm is broken like when it cascades over a waterfall, plunging into turbulence.
"These past few days our lives routine has been plunged into turbulence, swirling directionless.
"But the plunge pool at the base of the waterfall is not the finishing line of a river - the waters continue their course and regain focus - but not at the same level at a different level, a deeper place, a wider space. change has happened, it is not the same and it will never be the same."
An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Claire and Joe Collins is ongoing.
Gardaí are treating the deaths as a suspected murder-suicide.
They are not looking for anybody else in connection with the incident and a file will be sent to the local Coroner and an inquest will be held at a later date.
