Fond farewell for popular jockey

LEADING figures from the racing world paid a poignant farewell to 25-year-old jockey Kieran Kelly in a Co Kildare church graveyard yesterday.

The church was filled to capacity half an hour before the service began, with the large crowd of mourners spilling out into the church grounds. Tributes to the popular young riding star, who died from injuries sustained in a fall, were led by Fr Tom Dooley at Derrinturn Church in Carbury, Co Kildare.

Fr Dooley told the family members and the large attendance that the only comfort they could take from the tragic accident was that Kieran had died doing what he loved.