Proud - Tom, with daughters Holly and Sinead, was a dedicated family man (Image: Sinead Dargan)“I was at work and I hadn’t spoken to him the day before, which was unusual as we usually spoke everyday,” she said. “I helped my dad regularly with his condition so work understood when I said I’d better go and check he was okay. “We are all heartbroken, he had struggled with his health because of the diabetes but it’s come so suddenly. “We panicked after he died, it was so unexpected and we had no idea how we were going to pay to give him the send-off he deserves. “He was incredibly proud to be Irish and we’re looking to celebrate that at his wake.