Celebrity pals join Ryan at mother’s funeral

RADIO presenter Gerry Ryan was comforted by a host of celebrities yesterday as he laid his mother to rest.

The RTÉ host was shocked over the holidays when his mother, Maureen Ryan, suddenly passed away at her Clontarf home on Christmas day. She was in her 80s.

Joined by his son Rex, Gerry Ryan carried his mother’s coffin into the waiting hearse outside the Church of St John the Baptist in north Dublin yesterday.