‘Farewell. Sleep in peace, my baby boy’

MOURNERS wept openly yesterday when a poignant letter from a mother to her only son, killed in a road accident last Saturday, was read out at his funeral Mass.

St Peter and Paul Church in Bruff, Co Limerick, was full as a community paid their last respects to Kevin Walsh, who was just 16.

Students from the local Ard Scoil Mhuire, along with soccer and GAA teams, formed guards of honour. Local curate Fr Joe Foley read out a letter written by Kate Walsh to her only son.