Sometimes a story makes us all stop, catch a breath and genuinelyunite in shared sorrow. The shocking death of Michaela Harte is onesuch story.
We can all feel it. The family love flooding out of thosepictures of that beautiful young girl.
And with it some small sense of the enormity of their grief.
Understandably there's been much focus on the loving bond betweenfather and daughter: "I've lost my only, beautiful daughter, thattells you everything", is how the Tyrone manager poignantly summedup a loss beyond any parent's worst nightmare.
But all the Harte and McAreavey family circle are in ourthoughts. Especially Michaela's husband John. Especially her motherMarion.
In her beauty and her youth Michaela is forever caught in time asshe is in those lovely pictures.
She is forever that golden young woman. Forever her daddy's girl.
We always say that in such circumstances words are inadequate andyes, at such an awful time they do seem pathetically little tooffer.
And yet ... .
Trawling through internet messages of condolence you can't helpbut be truly moved by the scale of the wave of compassion andsympathy from right across this community and beyond.
With gentle, touching simplicity one well-wisher on the BelfastTelegraph site sums up what we're all thinking now.
"Our hearts are with the Hartes."
CAPTION: Beautiful young woman: Michaela Harte at the Rose ofTralee competition
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