Relatives remember loved ones in Cork at Console's Christmas Celebration of Light

Poignant photographs of happier times were placed under the Christmas tree in a Cork church yesterday as people bereaved by suicide gathered for the annual Console Christmas Celebration of Light.

Relatives of the deceased lit candles all around the altar prior to the emotional service at the Sacred Heart Church in Western Road, Cork, at 4pm yesterday. A minute’s silence was also observed to remember those who have lost their lives to suicide.

Celebrant Fr Alan Neville said people who are bereaved by suicide are often left completely broken and without hope.