The Bishop of Limerick has described as “moving and inspirational” a gesture by the 11-year-old son of the late Munster rugby star Anthony Foley in asking people to go to Mass and light candles over the next eight Sunday’s for their own deceased loved ones.

The funeral mass of Offaly vet Catherine Gowing takes place in Co. Offaly later.

LOUIS OSBOURNE, the eldest son of self-styled Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne, spurned the celebrity route when he married Irish girl Louise Lennon yesterday.