Egg-clectic Easter of proclamations, graveyard Masses and beautiful beasts in Kerry

Dawn Masses and Easter fires are being held at a number of ancient Christian graveyards and sites in Co Kerry tomorrow, in commemoration of St Luke’s account of the finding of the empty tomb of Jesus “at early dawn”.

Photo credit: Zoe Higgins, holding nine-week-old Jamie O’Brien-Rawley, with Ali O’Keeffe, Leon Rawley Higgins, Robyn O’Keeffe, and Zyana Dowling, all of Curraheen, were among 1,300 children who took part in an Easter egg hunt at the Lifetime Lab on the Lee Rd, Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins

Among the sites for the Easter Sunday celebrations is the parish of St John’s in Tralee, which holds its first Easter outdoor Mass as dawn breaks at Annagh Cemetery, near Curaheen Church, outside Tralee.