The funeral mass of the four members of the Alexander family that were killed in a road collision in Co Wexford last Monday has taken place in St Mary's Church in Cushinstown.
The four coffins were met by an honour guard of gardaí and members of the Bolingbrook Police Department in Illinois.
Doug and Lily Ryan-Alexander, who were in their mid-70s, along with their sons, Doug Jr and Stephen Alexander, 52 and 49 respectively, had flown in that day from their home in Illinois to attend a funeral in the same church in which today's mass was said.
They rented a car at Shannon Airport before the accident happened.
The bodies of the parents will be cremated privately and their ashes will be returned to the United States.
The bodies of Doug and Stephen will be repatriated later in the week for their families to organise the final funeral services.
Father-of-two Stephen Alexander was a police officer with the Bolingbrook Police Department, a suburb of Chicago.
The mass was said by Fr Sean Devereux, parish priest of Cushinstown, with Bishop Dennis Brennan of Ferns con-celebrating. The Taoiseach was represented by his aide-de-camp Cmdt Caroline Burke.
