Kevin Sinnot RIP

Kevin Sinnot

Yesterday was the day Kevin Sinnot had his Requiem Mass and was buried. The Brothers here at West Beach have been praying for him and his family.

Kevin and his brother, David, really worked hard at the their studies, had a great sense of humour, and had a great sense of justice and charity. Kevin was tragicaly drowned at Southern Catholic University, USA while swimming across a lake with friends.

Fr Higgins, the chaplain at the university could not speak highly enough of him, and gave concrete instances of ways he expressed his love of God and his fellow students. For instance, Kevin led a faithful Catholic sacramental life and was at Confession earlier on the day that he drowned. He would spend time before the Blessed Sacrament in silent prayer right up to the days before his death. Students in difficulty with their studies would come to him for help. He had time for others. In every way he proved a young man of whom any parent or school would be proud.

I am very proud to be associated with Kevin, although he was not in any of of my classes at Chavagnes. Nevertheless, I supervised him from time to time at sport, at recreation, at study, in the dormitory etc. From time to time I had several informal conversations with him, some serious, some lighthearted and some a mixture of both. He was a most pleasant, gentlemanly boy top deal with.

Kevin's mother was the most recent election was a Member of the European Parliament for West Cork. She had spent years campaigning for handicapped children She, an American-born had eleven children of her own, and had first hand knowledge of difficulties of caring for them for one of them was handicapped. Kathy Sinnot took on the big parties as an independent in the election before last, standing on the issue of care for the handicapped, and beat them. Her faith and her children's faith were most important to her, and she could not speak highly enough of what Chavagnes did for her two boys. Her testimony can easily be found on the college's home page.

I am sure Mrs Sinnot would appreciate any Masses or prayers you would say for Kevin. RIP