“The kindness of perfect strangers and friends not long known touched our hearts deeply.”
Those are the words of Melanie Dineen, from Macroom, who married Dylan Fleming, from Crosshaven, on February 10.
Tragically, Dylan died from cancer a month later.
“It was very last minute and we had almost ruled the possibility of a wedding out,” Melanie said.
“We had always planned on getting married, but it had never been a priority to either one of us.
“We had bought our forever home in December, 2023, and we used our savings to start renovating that.
The Cork couple first met online ‘by pure fluke’.
“Marriage was always something down the line, when we had the house sorted, when we had children, etc,” she added.
Just months after buying their home, in June, 2024, Dylan…