His father was a famous singer, but Phelim Drew’s first love was acting, writes Colette Sheridan

Actor David Kelly got one final standing ovation as his coffin was carried out of his local parish church at the end of his funeral Mass in Dublin yesterday.

THOSE honoured at this year’s People of the Year Awards reflect a year that gave us the best of times, and the worst of times.

BANJOS and ballads, laments and love songs filled the church where Ronnie Drew said farewell in the only way he knew how to the woman who kept him in tune.