A charity has invited families and friends of people who lost their lives through suicide to come together to remember their loved ones at a special Christmas Celebration of Light.

A hero, a magnetic presence, even a boy wizard – Barry Davis Ryan was many things, and yesterday he was the central figure in the celebration of a young life cut short and the story of those who helped to bring him home.

An appeal has been issued for experienced divers to join searches for the last victim of last week’s wave tragedy off West Cork.

Large crowds attended a prayer service for Baltimore drowning victim Niamh O’Connor at her family home last night.

A priest blessed with a talent for communicating with the masses has seized on the 50 Shades of Grey fever sweeping the nation to spread the faith.

A brave Irish girl, who captured hearts on both sides of the Atlantic as she battled a rare childhood cancer, has died.

The funeral has taken place of Donegal couple Jimmy and Kathleen Cuddihy who were found dead at their home in Cardonagh last week.

Pope Francis has paid tribute to the late former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds for his work as a peacemaker.

Politicians of all hues paid their respects to Albert the peacemaker as thousands gathered to say their final goodbye to the former taoiseach.

The removal service for the former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds has taken place in Dublin.

The funeral cortege of Albert Reynolds has arrived at the Sacred Heart Church in Donnybrook, Dublin, for the formal reception of his remains.

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The funeral of a three-year-old boy who was killed in a crash in Co Monaghan is underway.

The head of a national suicide charity has urged the Government to respond to the suicide crisis in the same way it prioritised road safety which led to a reduction in road deaths.

Family and friends of Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney have gathered with his contemporaries and dignitaries to pay last respects to one Ireland’s literary greats.

Family and friends of Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney will join dignitaries and literary figures today as Ireland bids farewell to one its most famous sons at a funeral service in Dublin.

The body of poet Seamus Heaney were taken to a Dublin church tonight ahead of a funeral service for the Nobel Laureate tomorrow.

I was at Ruairi Ó Bradaigh’s funeral ceremony at the Sacred Heart Church in Roscommon.

Tears and fears turned into a sparkling champagne celebration yesterday for Limerick bride, Stacy Higgins, and her groom, Jamie Hourigan, after their big day reception was saved in the High Court.

Paddy Buggy, whose death has taken place at the age of 84, was a member of a select group of All-Ireland medal-winners who served as President of the GAA.

A suspect device, later confirmed to be a hoax, was discovered at a Catholic church in Co Antrim today.

Hundreds of people from all over Munster gathered yesterday for a remembrance service for parents and families who have experienced infant or pregnancy loss.

As many as 500 mourners have attended a funeral mass in Dublin for three brothers who were killed in a car crash in Offaly last Friday evening.

The offertory gifts were the essential tools of any 19-year-old woman — lip gloss, mobile phone and an iPod.

The woman who died in a head-on road collision on Monday night will be buried with her unborn daughter today following a funeral Mass in the church where she got married just last year.

A schoolboy and a young woman who was due to give birth to her first child in the coming weeks lost their lives after their cars were involved in a head-on collision.

Calypso is a find for sea lovers and families in need of space, with potential for another home on site.

ALMOST 7,000 “hugely traumatised” adults and 581 children who have been bereaved by one or more suicides attended specialist counselling services in the first six months of this year.

THE tiny villages of Camp and Annascaul in Kerry ground to a halt over the weekend as parishioners paid their last respects to a young sporting hero who died suddenly.

The GAA community in Kerry is in mourning after the deaths of club player Brendan O'Driscoll and the Kingdom's former All-Ireland winning goalkeeper Garry O'Mahoney.

FORMER judge and politician Declan Costello was a great Christian and a man who had offered Ireland a new vision for living, mourners at his funeral were told.

GARRET FitzGerald passed away knowing that the good relations he dreamed of between Ireland and Britain were a reality, mourners at his funeral were told.

IN a state funeral especially fashioned to fit the gentleness of the man being honoured, there were no guns, just Garret.

THOUSANDS of mourners paid their last respects to former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald as they lined the route to his final resting place.

Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald woke in “his final agony” to see the culmination of his work when the Queen met President Mary McAleese on Irish soil, his state funeral heard today.

Hundreds of mourners have gathered at the Sacred Heart church in Donnybrook this afternoon to say a final farewell to former taoiseach Dr Garret Fitzgerald.

President Mary McAleese will join mourners at today’s funeral for former taoiseach Dr Garret FitzGerald.

President Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, members of the Cabinet and the judiciary have joined the FitzGerald family for the removal of Dr Garret FitzGerald to the Sacred Heart Church in Donnybrook.

Members of the public queued today to pay their final respects to former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald as he lay in state ahead of his funeral tomorrow.

"I think he was the most honest politican we've ever seen…I don't think we'll ever see the likes of him again," said one man who paid his respects to the late Dr Garret FitzGerald today.

MEMBERS of the public will get a chance to pay their final respects to Garret FitzGerald, whose remains will lie in repose in Dublin’s Mansion House today ahead of tomorrow’s state funeral.

Books of condolence will open to the public later in memory of the late Dr Garret FitzGerald.

MEMBERS of the public will be allowed to pay their final respects to former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald who was last night remembered as an outstanding statesman who made a lasting contribution to peace and placed Ireland at the heart of Europe.

IT IS not known yet whether the 25-foot motor cruiser that burst into flames killing three men on the Beara peninsula this week will be raised from the seabed.