FAI chief John Delaney and Ireland team manager Martin O’Neill were among the mourners yesterday at the funeral Mass for Milo Corcoran, a former FAI president who leaves “many, many legacies”.

Thousands of hurling fans queued for hours in Thurles last evening for the removal of Tipperary hurling great Jimmy Doyle, who passed away suddenly on Monday, aged 76.

IT WAS the kind of funeral Terry Keane would have approved of. An elegant church in leafy south Dublin, ladies with perfectly co-ordinated handbag and shoes, wonderfully refined music and a celebrant who doubles as an expert on Caravaggio.

TIGHT security surrounded the removal of the mother of Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Cork last night.

HEARTBROKEN actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers jetted in to Cork with his father John O’Keeffe yesterday to attend his mother’s funeral.