Thousands pay their respects to brave Jonathan

THEY cut short a tour of America last week to help search for his body — and last night they accompanied him as he began his final journey.

Thousands pay their respects to brave Jonathan
Wed, 13 Sep, 2006 - 01:00
Eoin English

Jonathan Herlihy’s best friends and team-mates from University College Cork’s soccer club walked, heads bowed, alongside a hearse last night as it carried his remains from Barry Brothers Funeral Home in Riverstown, near Glanmire in Cork the few hundred yards to St Joseph’s Church.

Jonathan, 22, drowned with businessman Peter O’Keeffe, 36, last Sunday week after they saved two swimmers struggling in the water off Owenahincha beach in West Cork.

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