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Jolanta Lubiene with her eight-year-old daughter Enrika at her Holy Communion in May. Facebook

1,000 attend mass organised by school children for murdered friend and her mum

Fr Michael Fleming said the church was “overflowing” with friends from the Kerry and Lithuanian communities.

Updated 10.15pm

AROUND 1,000 MOURNERS filled a Co Kerry church yesterday evening for a special mass for a murdered mother and her daughter.

Fr Michael Fleming told TheJournal.ie that the Church of St James in Killorglin was “overflowing” with friends from the Kerry and Lithuanian communities, as well as many of Enrika’s school friends dressed in blue uniforms.

A friend of the family read aloud words written by Levita, a 12-year-old niece of 27-year-old Jolanta Lubiene at the mass. She described her aunt as a wonderful friend and mother and explained why she chose her as a sponsor for her Confirmation a few months ago.

Levita, who Fr Fleming said did “not feel up to” speaking at the mass, also spoke about her eight-year-old cousin who she described as her ‘best friend’.

“She was a little chatterbox who loved her school and her friends,” she said, according to the Irish Examiner. “She was as sweet as sugar and as bright as the sun.”

The Church of St James in Killorglin, Co Kerry where the mass was held last night. (Pic: Google Streetview)

The mass was organised by Enrika’s school friends, and “they sang just as they did for Enrika’s Holy Communion just a few short weeks ago” said Fr Fleming.

Also in attendance at the mass was Jolanta’s husband and Enrika’s father Marius Lubys who returned from Sweden. Her sister, Kristina and Kristina’s husband, Vaidas accompanied him.

Fr Fleming said many of Jolanta’s work friends also turned out to pay their respects to the mother-of-one who has been described as a person who was “well known and well liked” in the community.

Repatriate the bodies

A fund has been set up to help pay the €20,000 to repatriate the bodies of Jolanta and Enrika. Thirty-year-old Lubys said he wants his wife and daughter to be buried in their native Lithuania. He hopes he can raise the money as Jolanta’s father is very ill with liver cancer and is unable to travel.

Investigation

The mother and daughter died after suffering stab wounds in an attack in their home on Saturday afternoon. Gardaí have launched a manhunt and have been scouring the area near the Kerry home to find a weapon or anything that could lead them to the killer.

Anyone with information on the double murder is asked to contact Killarney garda station 064 6671160, the Garda Confidential line 1800 666 111 or any Garda Station.

Related: Viešas kreipimasis: Gardaí appeal to Lithuanians over Killorglin murder>

More: Gardaí issue last known movements of murdered Jolanta Lubiene in Kerry>

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    Mute Sergeant Yates
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    May 6th 2015, 8:51 AM

    A big clap for those students.

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    Mute Brendan Hughes
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    May 6th 2015, 8:56 AM

    Very good.

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    Mute ThatGuy
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    May 6th 2015, 9:45 AM

    More like a standing ovation if it continues! :-)

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    Mute Neal Ireland Hello
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    May 6th 2015, 11:40 AM

    I hereby temporarily withdraw my ongoing objection to puns, due to an unexpected rise in quality.

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    Mute Dermot Lane
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    May 6th 2015, 3:09 PM

    Even if they abstain, they could catch an STD: the slowhand clap!
    Plus they could go blind.

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    May 6th 2015, 6:42 PM

    Haaaaa ha ha ha ha ha!!!! man, you’ve made my day

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    Mute Peter King
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    May 6th 2015, 8:57 AM

    So they told teenagers not to have sex and they did it anyway. I’m shocked.

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    Mute Tom Doherty
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    May 6th 2015, 8:58 AM

    the immaculate infection

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    Mute Get Lost Eircodes
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    May 6th 2015, 9:01 AM

    “Abstinence is the only method that is 100% effective at preventing pregnancy”

    Didn’t work too well for Mary now did it?

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    Mute Kal Ipers
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    May 6th 2015, 10:12 AM

    Common misconception, Mary was not a virgin. She was like an alter boy in a church and probably about 13. The priests persuaded an elderly Joseph to marry her so she wouldn’t be stoned to death. The immaculate conception was Jesus was born without original sin.
    In modern days if a bunch of priests said a young girl in their care became pregnant not many would believe a magic ghost made it happen.
    I doubt Mary’s education meant she knew what sex was but it doesn’t make her a virgin.

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    Mute Kevin Slater
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    May 6th 2015, 10:44 AM

    Wrong, common misconception, pun intended. The immaculate conception was promulgated in 1953 I think. It refers to Mary being conceived without original son to make her a suitable vessel to bear the son of god, sex being if course filthy and women filthier still. Just more proof that Augustinian theology adopted by the rcc hates humanity and women in paticular.

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    Mute Play Against Par
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    May 6th 2015, 11:09 AM

    Mary from Glenroe? Sure Miley was riding all around him…

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    Mute Mark Gerard Lochlain
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    May 6th 2015, 5:02 PM

    So Mary was really an alter boy?

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    Mute Dylan #YesEquality
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    May 6th 2015, 8:56 AM

    “If kids are not having any sexual activity, they can’t get this disease” This strain of Chlamydia must have spread through osmosis so.

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    Mute Joanna
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    May 6th 2015, 9:02 AM

    Don’t have sex or you’ll get pregnant and die!

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    Mute Sam
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    May 6th 2015, 9:54 AM

    Damn you beat me to it!

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    Mute Larissa Nikolaus
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    May 6th 2015, 11:41 AM

    Sad thing is, even abstinence from sex doesn’t lead to immortality, and if it did, it wouldn’t be an immortality worth living

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    Mute Dara O'Síocháin
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    May 6th 2015, 2:55 PM

    Damn you beat it to me!

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    May 6th 2015, 9:07 AM

    I blame the parents who sent their kids to such a backwards school.

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    Mute Deco James Connolly
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    May 6th 2015, 10:36 AM

    I blame the parents for not teaching their children sex education , it’s a parents place to instil this knowledge not the state of texas .

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    Mute James Mark Donnelly
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    May 6th 2015, 11:13 AM

    Before calling the school backwards, ask how many schools with sex ed have similar or worse stats? Is What exactly is the article’s point? Is it saying that STI’s are higher in schools that encourage abstinence only? and if so, what is that based on, as its only a report on one school in one district, in one state in one nation. Article seems pointless, yet everyone seems to be concluding that its all because of the school that 20 students have an STI.

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    Mute Al Fonso
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    May 6th 2015, 1:01 PM

    @James Chlamydia rates are less than 1 in 100 for girls between 10 and 14 in the US (http://www.cdc.gov/std/chlamydia/stats.htm) even less for boys.

    So, 1 in 15 would be a much higher rate than the average.

    It is proven that abstinence-only education does not help reduce rates of STI whereas proper sex education does. So, in conclusion, logic would dictate that choosing abstinence-only education raises the incidence of STIs amongst students.

    It is not a pointless article, from time to time, irrational and irresponsible choices (such as abstinence-only sex ‘education’) need to be named and shamed so that people demand well researched choices instead.

    Thank you, I know you will not change your mind.

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    Mute James Mark Donnelly
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    May 7th 2015, 1:19 PM

    @Al, change my mind from what exactly? Looking for more information before jumping to conclusions? No matter what you think, you cannot deduce from this article, that abstinence only sex ed leads to STI’s. I don’t give a toss if you are for no sex ed or for the most explicit sex ed, you simply cannot with justification say that this schools sex ed policy has lead to 20 students having an STI. (I am not against sex ed, just to correct your assumption) Those with a bone to chew on the matter would rather jump to conclusions than to be diligent in processing the available info. You are like a bunch of seals clapping fins after being thrown a fish.

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    May 6th 2015, 9:06 AM

    Well fancy that – nobody could have predicted that…..

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    Mute Joe
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    May 6th 2015, 8:58 AM

    So we’re now covering public health updates from Texas!!

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    May 6th 2015, 9:18 AM

    Yeah its great isn’t it. Weather in Pakistan is up later.

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    Mute Al Fonso
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    May 6th 2015, 1:05 PM

    Hot and dry.

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    May 6th 2015, 4:31 PM

    On both counts

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    May 6th 2015, 9:25 AM

    I know some schools in the states have this policy only because they receive funding be it state or government. Ireland also has problems regarding sex education. Some Irish schools have in-house sex ed that would not be up to a high standard. Also some schools in Ireland because of their ethos do not allow discussion on contraception in the programme. Some schools do not provide any sex ed programme

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    Mute Jason Maguire
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    May 6th 2015, 11:34 AM

    Two weeks ago I attended an extra curricular talk with my 12 yo. Her primary school brought in an outside counseller to give a sex ed talk. It was after school so if you didn’t want your kid there, you didn’t send them. He gave a comprehensive lecture on puberty development etc and then got the kids to write down any questions they had. In all fairness, it wasn’t the most comfortable couple of hours ive ever spent, but a lot better than the conseqences of not knowing the truth or believing schoolyard rumours.

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    May 6th 2015, 8:55 AM

    The shortcomings in Crane High School’s Handbook is nothing to clap about.

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    May 6th 2015, 9:58 AM

    Backwards redneck imbeciles. These abstinence only policies are having far more lethal effects in Africa. The majority of US funded HIV prevention programmes in Africa promote this nonsense, in keeping with the bible thumping “moral majority” who every Republican in power panders to for votes. This is killing people.

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    May 6th 2015, 1:37 PM

    They got damn lucky in Texas that it wasn’t an outbreak of HIV.

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    May 6th 2015, 11:39 AM

    We used this approach for years in Ireland. It’s well known that the solution to teenage pregnancies is to tell young people, particularly girls, absolutely nothing about sex. That way, we never had any problems, so we hadn’t. And before you red thumb me, I’m being ironic.

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    May 6th 2015, 10:43 AM

    It’s not all down to the school. Ok te school advertises that it doesn’t offer sexual education, but the parents still send their kids there. Unless the school changes its policy (heck, even after) the parents ought to be teaching their kids about safe sex.

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    May 6th 2015, 9:15 AM

    I wonder what an article such as this proposes to teach. There is an outbrake of chlamydia in one school where they mention abstension. Abstension gives you chlamydia. All schools who support abstension, have outbreaks of chlamydia. Schools who teach absyension have higher incidents of chlamydia than liberal schools. Let’s have more sex in schools to prevent chlamydia.

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    May 6th 2015, 9:19 AM

    I can’t understand how a outbreak of chlamydia in a random high school in the back arse of Texas has anything to do with us here in Ireland or why it’s even worthy of reporting on? I wonder are there any high schools that teach contraception that’s had outbreaks of teen pregnancy?!

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    Mute Markonline
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    May 6th 2015, 9:24 AM

    Yea, it’s a strange one alright, what are the numbers of infections for other schools? What was the male:female ratio of infected students. Do the parents agree that abstinence is the best policy regarding sexual health?

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    May 6th 2015, 9:32 AM

    Paddy,

    It’s a well established fact that abstinence only programs such as the one in Crane ISD don’t work.

    The empirical evidence shows that pupils taught in abstinence only schools at best delay sexual contact for 18 months on average and when they do begin to engage in it, they have no information about how to do so safely, leading to increases in risky (e.g. unprotected/untested) sexual contact.

    We’re not talking about “mentioning” abstinence, these programs deny kids the conversation on sex under every frame of reference except abstinence, here is some of the misinformation students are told under the guise of abstinence only:

    - Condoms are not effective in preventing the transmission of HIV and other STIs.
    - Contraception is unreliable and ineffective.
    - Condoms have a high failure rate in preventing unintended pregnancy.
    - Condoms do not protect against human papillomavirus (HPV).

    To answer what you were wondering…

    You, this article proposes to teach, educate and inform you and people like your good self, who aren’t aware that abstinence only programs are in fact leading to higher rates of sexually transmitted illnesses.

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    Mute Joe
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    May 6th 2015, 9:34 AM

    So Sean does that mean that schools who teach about contraception are at fault for any teen pregnancy’s that occur in their schools? Also why not an article on that why some random Texas school? This article is nothing more than clickbait.

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    Mute Sean Gallagher
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    May 6th 2015, 9:42 AM

    No but an outbreak of an STI at a school that refuses to engage with its students on the matter is sorta worth talking about

    If a couple (or it seems in this case, entire class) are forewarned, forearmed and educated on the risks and the “safer” way of doing things and don’t listen, then that’s one thing.

    If the body charged with turning them into well rounded, educated people intentionally avoids giving them that information then that IS their fault (especially when they refuse to do so, with best practice guidelines handed out at a national level).

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    May 6th 2015, 9:48 AM

    The problem isn’t with teaching abstinence, abstinence obviously work. It is the teaching of it that doesn’t seem to work in creating the wanted behaviour. But anyway, the problem isn’t with teaching abstinence, the problem is with NOT TEACHING anything else about sex. Like use of condoms and safe sex in general.

    But hey, Paddy, keep using your flawed logic (and spelling) in order to try to make an (un)compelling argument.

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    May 6th 2015, 9:50 AM

    @ Sean Gallagher
    I don’t agree Sean. I have no idea what education these pupils actually got. But historically when abstinence was common chlamydia was less common, now that sex education (how to use a condom) is everywhere, std’s are gone through the roof. I note it’s an outbreak of chlamydia, not pregnancy, therefore it is probable that the children were using condoms. We all should know that whereas the failure rate of condoms when used properly is as low a 5%; among teenagers who are as good at using condoms as they are at keeping their rooms tidy, the failure rate is as high as 45%.
    So is is not a well established fact that condoms reduce disease, all of the indications are that condoms lead to more risky behaviour, and higher and increasing levels of disease.
    As for establishing any facts, well one swallow dosent make a summer.

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    May 6th 2015, 10:00 AM

    Paddy, please educate yourself on this kinda stuff.

    Sex education is not “how to use a condom” only.
    Just because there is no mention of pregnancy, doesn’t mean none occurred.

    Can you give a citation for that 45% failure rate – or in fact the 5% because it’s widely accepted to be closer to 1%?

    The use of condoms reduces disease. It IS an established fact, it’s recognised by all the major health organisations in the world, WHO, UNICEF, CDC, The VATICAN!!!

    None of the indications show risky behaviour increases with the use of condoms (AIDS epidemic in Africa would even support that). Paddy, I’m afraid you’re behind the times on this one.

    For some light (and I mean actually light not your 150 pages of paid for legal advice) have a look at this:

    http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/publications-a-z/409-the-truth-about-abstinence-only-programs

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    May 6th 2015, 10:01 AM

    Go home Paddy, you’re drunk.

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    May 6th 2015, 10:06 AM

    Paddy, if I put the condom in my finger instead of my penis, the failure rate is 100%. Your ‘ failure rate is as high as 45%’ is meaningless and, if anything, a very good argument FOR sex education.

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    May 6th 2015, 10:22 AM

    Hey, Paddy. Maybe there’s a patron saint for chlamydia you could pray to? St. Clappius of Venerea? Prayer rocks!

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    May 6th 2015, 10:31 AM

    Paddy! I don’t think you understand how condones work

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    May 6th 2015, 2:38 PM

    Do you pray before or after the unprotected sex?

    Instead of.

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    May 6th 2015, 6:26 PM

    No paddy one swallow is luve

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    May 6th 2015, 10:28 AM

    Sounds to me like it’s French letters they should be sending out.

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    May 6th 2015, 10:22 AM

    When I read the headline I knew it would be an American school…

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    May 6th 2015, 10:35 AM

    Yeah, because an Irish school would never have an agenda like that.

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    May 6th 2015, 12:05 PM

    Should have used sellotape!

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    May 6th 2015, 8:57 AM

    Too many antibiotics being prescribed.

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    May 6th 2015, 10:15 AM

    No. Not too many antibiotics. Too few johnnies.

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    May 6th 2015, 4:59 PM

    Well…..that worked out well!!!

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    May 6th 2015, 3:33 PM

    It’s been known for ages that in the USA states where schools teach abstinence -only sex ‘education’ have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than states with proper comprehensive biology classes.

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    May 6th 2015, 1:26 PM

    Shouldn’t the school get in some sort if trouble?

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    May 6th 2015, 2:02 PM

    In Texas you’ll have armed parents especially those of the girls hunting the likkle bolix who defiled their innocent babies.

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