GRIEVING mother and grandmother Peggy Kenneally lived in hope her beautiful daughter, Nollaig Owen, would defeat post-natal depression.

AN INNOCENT child’s laugh and the creaky balcony stairs were the only sounds to break the heavy silence for 10 minutes before the start of Saturday’s vigil Mass in Kilworth.

FOR the first Saturday in weeks the small north Cork village of Kilworth woke up to clear summer skies.