Mother who died after giving birth was a 'warrior and a woman of deep justice', funeral hears

"This woman here laid down her life for her daughter. She laid down her life for little Claudia, Teresa, she laid down her life Stephen, for you, to give you a daughter."

"She loved where she came from in Sanxenxo, she loved the sea, she was outraged by the state of the sea here in Ireland, polluted with sewage still to this day."

"Teresa was a bit like a Spanish Gráinne Mhaol - she was a woman who loved the sea. The sea here in Galway, the sea at home in Sanxenxo, and of course it's the same sea, that vast Atlantic abyss that casts a spell on all of us who live by its shore."

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