Tributes as Sinnott’s son is laid to rest

A PHOTO of 22-year-old Kevin Sinnott hung at the end of his coffin as it lay in front of the altar of a Co Cork church before his requiem Mass yesterday morning.

It showed a young man with cropped hair, dressed in a plain green T-shirt, with the kind of smile that makes you smile yourself.

The 600 or so mourners filing up to pay their respects couldn’t help but shake their heads at the youth and vitality that emanated from the picture. It was if the drowning victim was beaming down at them as they gathered along the aisle of the Church of Our Lady and Saint Joh to pay their respects to his family.