Huge personal loss and tragedy befell Irish women Elber Twomey, Roseann Brennan, and Una Butler — and each has turned unimaginable horror and heartache into heroic virtue as they launch individual campaigns for safer roads and suicide prevention.

Two days ago, Roseann Brennan felt assailed by grief. It’s just six weeks since the death of her six- year-old son, Jake.

The heartbroken mother of a six-year-old boy killed by a car has launched a nationwide campaign to have speed ramps and reduced speed limits introduced in housing estates.

The devastated parents of Jake Brennan released two doves into the sky at his funeral yesterday as they continued to struggle to come to terms with his death.

A mother who lost her six-year-old son after he was hit by a car told how her little boy said, in the moments after the accident: "Mammy, I don’t want to die."

A terminally ill mum has been given a dream wedding and honeymoon thanks to a surge of goodwill from local businesses and friends.

More than 100 people who believe their relatives were killed by loyalists in collusion with the British security services have met in Belfast to demand a full public inquiry into the killings.