MORE than 1,000 people attended the funeral of MEP Brian Crowley’s brother, Flor, yesterday including Taoiseach Brian Cowen and former taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

THE late writer, Hugh Leonard, received the traditional applause of the theatre world at his funeral mass in Dalkey yesterday at what mourners were told was his “final curtain call”.

The extinction of playwright and columnist Hugh Leonard’s dazzling energy has left Ireland a poorer place, his funeral heard today.

MATT COOPER has resigned as Sunday Tribune editor to replace Eamon Dunphy as presenter of the Last Word show on Today FM.