Tributes flood in as renowned horse breeder laid to rest

DICK FORRISTAL'S violent death was the worst kind imaginable, more than 1,000 mourners were told yesterday at the funeral of the well known Co Waterford horse breeder.

A touching homily at the Church of the Holy Cross in Tramore was delivered by the 66-year-old's close friend and former parish priest, Monsignor John Shine.

"Deaths are so different, aren't they," the monsignor said. "They come to all of us all in such different ways. Some are more terrible than others. The brutal way in which Dick's life was taken from him was the worst of all. He was a man who should still be with us.