Considering the tragic nature of his death, the words of Fr Seamus Houlihan at last night’s removal of the late Shane McEntee were all the more poignant to those in attendance.

A priest officiating at the funeral of a young man who is believed to have died as a result of taking a lethal form of ecstasy has condemned drug-dealers as “less than human” and “purveyors of grief and doom”.

RADIO presenter Gerry Ryan was comforted by a host of celebrities yesterday as he laid his mother to rest.

HUMPHREY KELLEHER, the former Cork footballer whose death has occurred, was remembered yesterday as a powerful defender who had a major input into the winning of the All-Ireland in 1973.

LEADING members of the political and legal professions came together in Dublin yesterday for the funeral mass of one the country’s best-known barristers, Eamon Leahy.

OLIVER MURPHY was supposed to accompany his father, Martin, on last Sunday's ill-fated trip aboard the Pisces fishing boat that sank off the Wexford coast, but the vessel could only take nine passengers so he stayed ashore.