Patricia Irwin

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Mother | Died in 1989

Mother who died with her teenaged son in Kegworth air crash

Patricia Irwin and her 15-year-old son were among 47 people killed in the Kegworth air crash on 8 January, 1989.

Mrs Irwin and her son Peter , from County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, were on board a British Midland plane when it crashed into an embankment on the M1.

The plane, travelling from Heathrow to Belfast, with 118 passengers on board, had developed an engine problem and was attempting to make an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport.

A total of 28 people from Northern Ireland and three from the Republic of Ireland perished in the accident.

In May 2002, Mrs Irwin’s daughter, Sarah Hynds, who has Down’s Syndrome, was awarded a six-figure sum in compensation for the loss of the love and care her mother gave her.

Your Memories

My mother was a very kind and loving person who was known, loved and respected by many. She was half English and half Scots, and met my father in Scotland in the early 1960s when she was training to be a nurse. They married in Wales in 1966, and moved to Scotland, where my sister Sarah, my brother Peter, and I were born. We moved to Northern Ireland in 1975, where we settled. My mother became well-known in her capacity as a nurse/receptionist in the village of Clogher. We moved to Beragh in 1981 following her marriage to local farmer, Mr William Irwin (my father died from a brain haemorrage in 1978).

She devoted her life to doing good to others, through her role as Sunday School superintendant, her Marie Curie nursing and her interest and care for her extended family, and the familes of others less fortunate. She regularly wrote to 'religious' prisoners of conscience in Russia to try and offer them some comfort and support.

She is survived by her brother Anthony, half-brother Charles, daughter Sarah (40) and son Michael (37).

I will see her again. Michael Hynds — 08.01.2009

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