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Tralee Municipal Administrative Officer Bridget O’Riordan with Philomena Duggan, Sharon Roche and James Roche in front of the Remembrance Tree on Princes Street. Photo by Dermot Crean
AN annual ceremony will take place this Sunday at 3pm in Tralee where families can remember loved ones lost to suicide
For the past 12 years, Sharon Roche from Tralee has held a short ceremony in December at a special ‘Remembrance Tree’ set up outside Tralee Municipal District/Motor Tax offices on Princes Quay, where people could come and place a decoration in memory of loved ones lost to suicide.
Sharon was inspired to hold the event after her son Sean died by suicide in 2011 and the tree provides great comfort to people affected by suicide.
People can go along on Sunday or any time over the Christmas period to place their decoration. When the tree is taken down on January 6, if there are ornaments left, they are put in a box and put back up on the tree the following year.
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