'I miss you every single day': Maura Higgins pays tribute to her late friend on his 30th birthday

Maura Higgins took to Instagram on Friday to pay tribute to her best friend, who died in a tragic bike crash four years ago. 

Andrew Rowan passed away at the age of 26 following a collision with three cars while he was riding his motorcycle in Co Athlone, Ireland in 2017.

The reality star marked what would have been Andrew’s 30th birthday as she shared a series of affectionate selfies while revealing she loves and misses him ‘every single day’. 

Emotional: Maura Higgins took to Instagram on Friday to pay tribute to her best friend, who died in a tragic bike crash four years ago

Upsetting: Andrew Rowan passed away at the age of 26 following a collision with three cars while he was riding his motorcycle in Co Athlone, Ireland in 2017

Maura, 30, could be seen embracing her companion in one black-and-white shot, and cuddling up in bed in another. 

Andrew doted on a small dog in a following snap and posed with the influencer, who pouted and flashes a peace sign for the camera, in a dimly-lit setting.

Playing in the background of the emotional post with Christina Aguilera’s Hurt.

Maura wrote in accompaniment: ‘Not a day passes when your [sic] not in my thoughts. I love you so much & miss you every single day. Happy birthday in heaven.’

Happier times: The reality star, 30, shared a series of affectionate selfies to the platform while revealing she loves and misses him ‘every single day’

Last year, she revealed the heartbreak she suffered after losing her best friend.

Maura revealed her biggest emotional challenge as she said to The Sun on Sunday’s Fabulous Magazine: ‘Losing my best friend Andrew. He was killed in a motorbike accident four years ago. That was definitely the worst time of my life.’

After making the bold move to appear on the 2019 series of Love Island, Maura discovered that his death inspired her to live every day like it’s her last and she doesn’t plan ahead due to the uncertainty of life.

Open book: Maura wrote in accompaniment: ‘Not a day passes when your [sic] not in my thoughts. I love you so much & miss you every single day. Happy birthday in heaven’

Close bond: Maura could be seen embracing her companion in one black-and-white shot, and cuddling up in bed in another

She added: ‘I get the question so many times: “Where do you see yourself in five years?” And I can’t answer it because after that happened.

‘I vowed to just enjoy every day and now I will not look to the future too much. You’re just not ready for something like that. It was awful.’

According to the brunette bombshell, she blames herself for the death of her friend as the disclosed to The Mirror in 2019 that she was too tired to join him for dinner on the night of his crash.

She felt it was her fault for turning him down and changing the course of events for that evening, despite the fact that nobody could have predicted the tragic accident.

Maura said: ‘For so long, I used to think that if I had gone for dinner with him that day, when he had asked, he wouldn’t have been on that motorbike.

‘My family kept saying to me, “Maura, you can’t think like this, it was going to happen”, but I just kicked myself for so long and got worked up about it for so long.’

Pained: After making the bold move to appear on the 2019 series of Love Island, Maura discovered that his death inspired her to live every day like it’s her last and she doesn’t plan ahead due to the uncertainty of life