"We have a Christian duty to pray for the dead," says parish priest Fr Peter Byrne.

A suggestion that the Diocesan Trust has a problem with the symbol of the poppy is quite untrue.

The 2016 recipient will be announced in late August and the award will be presented on 5 November during the 9th Hugh O’Flaherty Memorial Week.

"We want to create a visual memorial through old photographs and put faces on the human cost of war" - Bishop Paul Colton of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.

“The tragic death of our dear friend Tom O’Gorman over the weekend has come as a huge shock and a painful loss to everyone in the pro-life movement" - PLC.