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Rory Staunton, a beautiful boy, leaves this earth. The hardest column I will ever have to write

Beloved Rory Staunton Periscope: When darkness comes and illness strikes a child; My flood of letters from families who live in great pain This is the toughest column I will ever write and the one I least expected to. On Sunday night in a New York hospital my beautiful 12-year-old nephew Rory Staunton passed from this ... FULL STORY >


When darkness comes and illness strikes a child; My flood of letters from families who live in great pain

Periscope: Rory Staunton, a beautiful boy, leaves this earth. The hardest column I will ever have to write I have been overwhelmed by e mails and letters about Rory Staunton, my 12-year-old nephew who tragically passed from a toxic bacterial infection in New York on April ... FULL STORY >


12-Year-Old Rory Staunton’s life is celebrated in style at New York church Over 1,000 throng to say farewell to our laughing boy in Woodside, Queens

  Beloved Rory Staunton Periscope: Rory Staunton, a beautiful boy, leaves this earth. The hardest column I will ever have to write My 12-year-old nephew Rory Staunton’s brief life was celebrated in ... FULL STORY >


The long journey home begins for 12-year-old Rory Staunton -- Taking his final trip back home to his beloved Emerald Isle

  Beloved Rory Staunton Rory Staunton, age 12 when he passed away, was always a little Irishman. He died in a New York hospital last weekend of a freak toxic ... FULL STORY >


The final farewell as my family say goodbye to Rory Staunton -- A sad leavetaking for grieving relatives amid sodden Irish skies

  Rory Staunton On a wet and grey Easter Monday amid slanting rain, my nephew Rory Staunton was finally committed to the Irish soil, buried beside his beloved grandmother in St. Peter’s graveyard in Drogheda, 30 miles from ... FULL STORY >


An Irish wake for Rory Staunton back home in Meath --- The families and friends gather for the timeless Irish ritual

  The Irish wake for my nephew Rory Staunton began in the parlor of his Aunt Derval’s house among the rolling hills and farmland of County Meath. Rory, aged 12, died at New York University Hospital a week ago from a toxic infection suffered after an elbow cut received at a basketball ... FULL STORY >


God in a time of personal crisis –how does he measure up? What I learnt from a dark night of the soul amid pain and suffering

A man and woman praying So is there an all-loving all-seeing God or is it a convenient invention to salve the soul? I have had major reason to consider that question over the past few weeks as my 12-year-old nephew, Rory Staunton, cruelly lost his life to a toxic infection in a New York ... FULL STORY >


Rory Staunton would have loved Tom Gibney’s underdog’s win at Fairyhouse race course

Andrew Thornton with Lion na Bearnai after the Fairyhouse win on Monday It rained for most of the day in County Meath on Monday, quite an appropriate scenario as a small parish church not far from Fairyhouse race course witnessed a tearful family’s farewell as Rory Staunton departed for brighter heavens. You may or may not know about young ... FULL STORY >


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