Minister for Education Norma Foley said she was delighted to visit Kanturk to officially open the state-of-the-art Scoil Naomh Padraig campus, a multi-million euro new school building on a green field site.
Minister for Education Norma Foley said she was delighted to visit Kanturk to officially open the state-of-the-art Scoil Naomh Padraig campus, a multi-million euro new school building on a green field site.
Minister for Education Norma Foley said she was delighted to visit Kanturk to officially open the state-of-the-art Scoil Naomh Padraig campus, a multi-million euro new school building on a green field site.
A woman who lost her two sons and husband in a Co Cork murder-suicide six months ago was remembered at her funeral Mass on Friday as a person of immense courage and dignity.
Canon Toby Bluitt told mourners at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Kanturk that Anne OâSullivan (61) had faced unimaginable grief last October when her entire immediate family was taken overnight in bleak circumstances.
Despite having a serious illness, he said, Ms OâSullivan, from Raheen in Kanturk, found the strength to attend a joint funeral of her husband Tadg (59) and son Diarmuid (23) and a separate service for her son Mark (26).
With devastating familiarity, the shrill ring of the telephone brings news of tragedy and disbelief and a community is, once again, shaken to its very core.
Amid the horrific circumstances of violence and sudden death, neighbours and friends spring into action, finding ways to rally round and provide vital comfort for those left behind to grieve.
Helpless shock gives way to bustle and the organisation of practicalities, with the arrangement of funerals. Covid has made all this so much harder.
The people of Cork are no strangers to difficult times, and to rallying around to help those plunged into darkness. So when news began to break of an overnight tragedy in their midst, they no doubt felt completely helpless.