“Aodhán, you brought smiles to people’s faces, your witty comments, your dry sense of humour, and sometimes mimicking people.”

On the altar were the symbols of their lives — a picture of the much-loved Red Anglia they drove, and a crucifix resting on a pair of hands, to symbolise how they worked together.

AN EERIE silence fell across Bray’s main street yesterday as family, friends and colleagues came to say goodbye to fallen fireman Brian Murray.