In a church in Dublin today, 668 names were read out. Behind each one of those names is a face, and behind each of those faces is a family.
All of these names have something in common, they were victims of homicide.
These names were read out in St Ann's Church on Dawson Street in Dublin city today, at a special service for those families.
The service was organised by the charity AdVIC, a group that supports and speaks up for families affected by homicide.
Everyone in the church has a story to tell, many have found comfort in knowing that there are others who understand their grief, and support them in a drive for change.
Two people who have been vocal about their brother’s case are siblings Elaine and Noel Byrne.
Paul was murdered by his wife Tanya Doyle in 2009.
In the years after the murder the family were told that Tanya Doyle stood to gain Paul’s pension benefits, while they also received legal advice telling them that they would have to pay her for her portion of the tenancy of the house.
Otherwise, she would get the keys upon her release.
After a long battle, the trustees of Paul’s pension agreed not to pay the money to Doyle.
AdVIC supported the Byrne family and helped them highlight the case.
Elaine said: "Paul was my big brother, he was a mixture of things to me. He was the funny one that played tricks on you in the house, he was the one that brought me out, looked after me, questioned people.
"He was just so kind, he was like a really good friend to me. We socialised as well as being related so it was like losing a friend as well as a brother."
Noel added: "He worked for an international engineering company, and he was project manager over quite a number of projects.
"He was very considerate not only to those people he worked with, but towards family as well."
Elaine said their life has changed ever since Paul’s death, describing their journey as "hard".
Noel has spoken up many times about how Tanya Doyle stood to benefit from his death, and continues to question how such a situation could unfold.
"The biggest issue lies not just with having to buy her half of the house off her, the big issue lies with this Government.
"This Government needs to bring in legislation so that convicted murderers ... don’t benefit from their crime."
Another person in St Ann’s is Moira Lawson, whose brother Alastair was killed in South Africa.
Alistair was shot dead in 2016 in what is believed to be a case of mistaken identity.
Moira’s familial connections are in both Australia and South Africa.
When Alastair died she found herself feeling more isolated in Ireland, but found support through AdVIC and was able to connect with people who understood what she was going through.
"It was difficult because I didn’t have family here as a support system, but I also didn’t have any legal rights here because he was in South Africa.
"I gave AdVIC a call, then within a day I had a counsellor, and someone also took on the role like a liaison officer.
"We kind of feel a bit lost sometimes, because people don’t really get how we feel.
"When you come to something like this, it is a family. Everyone here gets where you’re coming from. When you laugh they don’t say 'you shouldn’t be laughing you should be mourning’, when you cry they don’t say ‘you should be done crying’. We hold each other up.
"Alastair was my absolute hero.
"The older I got the closer we got. I think because we were both photographers and I learned the film industry through him, we just really had a good bond.
"Even here, I work in the film industry here, when I was taking photos or anything I always rang him, he was my support system and I miss that."
This is the charity’s 20th year in operation and in that time it has achieved a number of aims including successfully campaigning to allow families make victim impact statements on behalf of their loved ones.
Co-founder Annie Mulvaney’s son Brian was murdered in Templeogue in 2003.
"I got some support from victim support at the time, and there were some families that used to meet, but some of us felt we had no voice within the system and we tried to change that so that’s how AdVIC came about."
Ms Mulvaney said the group got in touch with now-Labour leader Ivana Bacik, and said she also played a big part in helping them set the group up.
"Over the 20 years that AdVIC has been there, along with other victim groups, I think things have changed.
"They are still not the way they should be, but I feel there is a voice now for families of homicide victims and they are heard more than they were 20 years ago.
"If you think about the numbers of years that a person found guilty has spent in prison, 20 years ago a person found guilty of murder - seven or eight years may have been the amount of time spent in prison, but now that has increased a lot.
"We feel sentences are more reflective of the trauma we have faced and that’s important for us."
Ms Bacik spoke to those in the church, and speaking to RTÉ afterwards she called it an "incredibly powerful and important organisation".
"They’ve done so much to change the criminal justice system for the better.
"One of the first campaigns we did with AdVIC was to ensure that victim impact statements would include families of homicide victims. Not just those who themselves had been the victims of crimes, but the families and that was important," said Ms Bacik.
But as many families take the time to recognise what they have achieved together, there is also a feeling that there is more to do.
One thing the group wants is the appointment of State victim liaison officers to families. It is also pushing for a revision of the parole system, and concurrent sentences.
It’s been a long road for those in St Ann’s today, and the grieving never ends. But they take comfort in the fact that they are not doing it alone.
