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A PSNI OFFICER has been remembered for her love of horses and sport after her tragic death during a hunt in Northern Ireland.
Constable Claire Lowe died after falling from a horse in what has been described as a “freak hunting accident” in Ballygowan yesterday.
A friend wrote on Facebook of the 39-year-old woman:
Tragic day today as lost a great friend in a freak hunting accident. Claire Lowe(Millhouse) was really a amazing person and will be dearly missed by us all.
Today, Superintendent Sean Wright paid tribute to her.
“Claire was an experienced and professional police officer with six years’ service,” he said.
“Claire was in the prime of her life. We all knew of her love for horses and for her sport but we also knew her for being a committed police officer who found challenge and reward in serving the local community and in keeping people safe throughout the Lisburn and Castlereagh District.
Claire’s untimely death has caused shock amongst her friends and colleagues across PSNI. She will be very much missed by all of us and her loss will be deeply felt for a long time to come.
“Our thoughts are with Claire’s family and friends at this tragic and difficult time.”
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My thoughts with their family, but I don’t understand why this is a story. Many people die each year from accidents, people of all ages and all walks of life. Why does she get a story?
@neuromancer: clicks – a good row about hunting and some “f__k the PSNI” thrown in and it’s money in the bank for Journal.ie.
@neuromancer: Because hunting is controversial. And probably typically English.
A story like this can generate clicks.
And what do clicks mean?
Yes, advertising revenue.
Well if it’s for 3 mobile advertising, I can tell you now, 3 mobile coverage is woeful.
Typically? Youve never seen the suze of the Irish hunting commuinity then have you.
The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.
@Boganity: I shot a fox to-night with a rifle. Sorry to hear about this accident.
Big man.
Fox: 1 Hunter: 0
I don’t know if I would call “falling off a horse and dying” a freak accident. Least she died doing something she loved.
Very sad. Hope it was a drag hunt.
Cue the sanctimonious, pontificating animal rights twits.
That has to be one of the most vile comments I’ve ever read on The Journal
@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: Oh there are plenty worse than that. But they’re made about brown people and travelers so they’re deemed to be fine.
@Phil Blanc: Are they? Comments were closed on the story about travelers seeking their own ethnic status yesterday.
@Eyepopper: And why do you thing that was? It was full to the brim with hate speech for most of the day.
@Phil Blanc: You just said those sort of comments were ‘deemed to be fine’ when they’re made about travelers.
Try make up your mind Phil.
Heh, nice reasoned come back there Phil.
Be a good lad, try to stop spouting so much 5hite will you.
@Eyepopper: See above.
@eyepipper: forgive him. He know not how thick he is.
If you’d had the “contact” I have had with “them”,(travellers,
Lord have mercy on her, so tragic, may she rest in peace ..
There are cruel heartless creeps on here sneering about a person dying in an accident.KARMA .!
Sinners having their low shots. To be expected really. Rip to her. Terrible tragedy.
Fox-hunting is disgusting. It’s cruel and unnecessary. People who want to terrorise and kill Ireland’s only native wild dog are psychopaths who have been desensitised to the horrors of hunting by exposure from a young age. It’s a disgrace in this day and age, when we now understand so much about animals, that this kind of thing still goes on.
This woman gets no sympathy from me
Sadly, I must agree with you Calvin. I am simply unable to have any sympathy towards a person who loses their live, whilst tormenting animal.
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