TRIBUTES are being paid today by a community numbed by the death of Georgia Doherty, the 13-year-old who died in a car crash outside Derry yesterday.
Georgia, a soccer player with both Redcastle FC and her school Moville Community College, was killed and her older sister Lisa was seriously injured in the accident near the Tamnaherin Road junction of the Glenshane Road yesterday evening.
Lisa is being treated at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast for serious injuries. She is in a critical condition.
Lisa was driving her wee sister home after a day out in Belfast when the incident happened.
The road was closed for eight hours whilst the emergency services attended the scene.
Today her friends at Moville Community College paid tribute to the girl, remembering how she had been always smiling, always beautiful and always having fun with them and her family members.
“Always with a laugh and a smile and a joke. Always with enough energy to take on 12 football teams and beat them all. The perfect wee girl,” said one friend today in a tribute.
Georgia excelled at sport, a keen soccer player she had also started to play gaelic football and was already being seen as a future star in both codes.
She had recently helped adults – including her dad – learn how to dance for a charity Strictly Come Dancing event.
Another friend said she had a heart of gold; “always smiling, always having fun”.
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