Candles lit for two devastated communities

AS darkness last night enveloped the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Newcastle West, candles flickered in a symbolic embrace of two communities in Limerick and Cork devastated by grief.

A congregation of more than 500, which included many parents and their young children, came to pray and reflect on the horrors and tragedies of recent days.

Canon Frank Duhig, parish priest of Newcastle West, said the lighting of candles at the commencement of the ceremony signified the pain the two communities were suffering for the four children and three adults who perished in Newcastle West and Ballycotton.