Aisling sings for Laura Lynn

An album of much-loved Irish songs has recently been launched by local woman Aisling O'Neill, in the Bar Council HQ in Dublin.

Aisling's day job has her working as a High Court Registrar, and this, her first solo CD, is in aid of the Laura Lynn Children's Hospice Foundation.

The album, 'A Twilight Falls', is a selection of 15 new arrangements to classic Irish airs. It was produced by Gerry Simpson, Eurovision songwriter. It comprises much-loved and timeless traditional compositions such as 'Carrickfergus', 'My Lagan Love', 'The Song of Wandering Aengus', 'Raglan Road', and Jimmy McCarthy's 'Bright Blue Rose'.

The Laura Lynn Children's Hospice Foundation was established in 2001 after Jane and Brendan McKenna lost their daughters Laura and Lynn in the space of just two years.

Their youngest daughter Laura was born with a hole in her heart, and died in 1999, aged 4. Lynn, at the age of 13 years, was diagnosed with leukaemia on the same day her younger sister passed away. She died two years later.

Jane McKenna was a former Four Courts colleague of Aisling O'Neill. Aisling's CD is available in Top Twenty in Newbridge and Naas, and in Bernard Berneys Chemists in Kilcullen.