Toys offered up in mass for baby boy believed to have been smothered

Flanked by her mother and close friends, a sobbing Anna Rozycka carried a photograph of her smiling baby son to the altar at St Mary's Cathedral in Killarney.

 The picture, toys, flowers and candles were among the symbols offered at the Mass for baby Karol.

Gardaí believe the baby, who died in suspicious circumstances in his home at the Killarney Park Place apartments on Sunday, may have been smothered to death. It was Ms Rozycka who requested yesterday's Mass as a way of remembering her son.

She thanked the local community for their support and appealed for their prayers for her and her family.

A collection was also held at the cathedral doors to help with the cost of repatriating Karol's body back to Poland later this week, where he will be laid to rest.

a Polish man who was found injured in the apartment on Sunday is in a stable but critical condition in Tralee General Hospital's ICU department.

He is understood to have suffered substantial blood loss due to serious arm and abdominal injuries, which are believed to have been self-inflicted.