‘What bravery. What an heroic deed. And what a sacrifice. The ultimate act of love – laying down one’s life for another.’
Those were the words of a heart-broken fiancée yesterday as she recalled her final moments with the man she loved just seconds before he drowned in a tragic sea rescue last weekend.
Anne Riordan’s tribute to her husband-to-be, Peter O’Keeffe, 36, from Model Farm Road in Cork, reduced to tears the hundreds of mourners who packed into St Mary and St John’s Church in Ballincollig, Co Cork, for his funeral Mass.
