‘It’s hard to say how God would let this happen to nice, good people’

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.

Banter about the successful intermediate hurlers was forgotten as the congregation resolved not to talk about the only thing on their minds.

Nine hours previously, a well-liked woman Nollaig Owen (nee Kenneally) drowned herself and her son Tadhg in a local river.