Lixnaw remembers 'kind, gentle' Eileen and Jamie at funeral

Mourners hear tragic deaths of mother and son left local community 'lost for words'.

The coffins of Eileen and Jamie O'Sullivan are carried into St Michael's Church in Lixnaw in North County Kerry today. Photo: Niall Carson/PA

Eileen O’Sullivan and her son Jamie were remembered as “kind, gentle” people at their requiem Mass this morning, with their deaths leaving the local community 'lost for words'.

The pair were killed by Ms O’Sullivan’s partner Mossie O’Sullivan in an apparent double-murder suicide two weeks ago.