Dealing with bereavement through-out the holidays

29,000 Irish people are bereaved every year, and the loss of a loved one is more keenly felt at this time of year, says Áilín Quinlan.

JILLIAN Van Turnhout and her family spent three Christmas Days of her father Michael Hassett’s life by his side, in the nursing home.

A stroke had left him paralysed from the neck down.