The funeral mass for Chloe McGee, who died in a road crash in Co Louth last weekend, is under way in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan.
Ms McGee was a woodwork and construction school teacher and one of five young friends who died in the car crash near Dundalk last Saturday.
The 23-year-old will be laid to rest following a funeral mass at St Joseph’s Church in the town.
The Taoiseach is represented by his aide-de-camp at the funeral.
Bishop of Clogher Larry Duffy is also in attendance and will afterwards attend the funeral of Shay Duffy.
Ms McGee’s funeral notice said she would be missed beyond words by her parents, her siblings, her colleagues and students in Ó Fiaich College, her many friends and the wider teaching community.
The funeral for Shay Duffy will take place at 1pm at St Patrick’s Church in Rockchapel, followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard.
He completed his plumbing apprenticeship training in Dundalk Institute of Technology last December.
Alan McCluskey, Chloe McGee, Shay Duffy, Chloe Hipson and Dylan Commins died in the crash last weekend
His family said he would be forever loved and missed beyond words by his parents, adoring brothers, his girlfriend, his family, friends and the whole community.
Dylan Commins’ funeral mass heard that his “dreams were cut heartbreakingly short, alongside the lives of his friends” and that “nothing will ever be the same again”.
His sister Lauren Commins delivered a eulogy following the funeral mass at the Church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Ardee.
She told the congregation that her brother’s journey had been “wild, bright and unforgettable”.
Symbols of his life brought to the altar represented the thriving automotive business that he had built, along with his love for the Milverton Motocross club.
His family was represented in a photograph, while a customised number plate was a sign of the strong friendships he had built during his life.
The funeral cortege arriving for the funeral of Dylan Commins at the Church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Ardee, Co Louth
The Chief Celebrant of the funeral mass, Father Francesco Campiello, the Curate of the Parish of Ardee and Collon, said that Mr Commins was “constantly moving”.
“From one sport to the other, from one job to the other, from Ireland to Australia and back. Dylan’s life represents very well this restlessness, which deep down is the desire for a full and meaningful life,” he said.
Lauren Commins spoke of a brother who brought “light, laughter and adventure into all our lives”.
Hundreds of people also gathered in Drumconrath in Co Meath for the funeral of Alan McCluskey.
Mourners were told that there is “incomprehension” at the death of Mr McCluskey, who was a “caring” friend and farm worker.
The congregation was told that Mr McCluskey had many varied interests.
“He was a man who knew how to enjoy himself, which is important too, in life,” Local parish priest Fr Finian Connaughton told mourners.
Fr Connaughton said that he was holding a baptism ceremony in the church as the “horrible news” of the crash was breaking last Sunday.
He said that he baptised Mr McCluskey, and was there for his First Communion and Confirmation.
Fr Connaughton said the sense of disappointment and loss at his death was “beyond words”.
The community had gathered in grief, anger and confusion, and “carrying a burden that at times, seems unmanageable and almost overwhelming,” he said.