The death has occurred of Canon Jackie McKenna, an accomplished and decorated Gaelic footballer, who was one of the best-known priests in the Kerry and Cork region.

My earliest memory of Páidí Ó Sé is of a young lad in perpetual motion with ball in hand playing against the gable end of his house in Árd a’ Bhothair or soloing up the cosach, that picturesque little byroad to Dunquin.