Colm Murray was honoured by a People of the Year award in September 2012 in recognition of his efforts to further medical research into motor neurone disease, writes Dan Buckley

The boisterous Galway racing crowd stood for a minute’s silence in tribute to legendary racing broadcaster Colm Murray.

Colm Murray’s passing was greeted with sadness in his native Moate, Co Westmeath, where the broadcaster was fondly remembered yesterday.

No event was complete without the ‘Murray treatment’, says Jonathan Mullin