'It's been a very tough two and a half years, she was the life and soul of the house and it ripped the heart out of the family'
From the depths of the tragedy of losing their sister Tierna 'Teeny' McMullan, her family in Cushendall are choosing to celebrate her memory as "the life and soul of the party".
Relatives and friends are coming together to raise funds for Belfast City Hospital's Level 10 Ward, where Tierna stayed during her illness, and for CLIC Sargent . "She loved getting out and we would take her down to the pub every so often and she was just the life and soul of the party. He continued: "We're having that a mass at 1pm on Saturday and then we've organised a few fundraisers - there's leg waxing with local lads and people can pay £10-20 to take a strip off them."We'll have a raffle on the night but we've also been getting some great prizes coming in so we're going to do a ticketbook raffle and hold that in about three weeks.
"He's keen on it, one of my brothers is maybe a bit dubious about jumping out of a plane to be fair, but my father's mad keen on it.