‘The one good thing is we’re united’

THE true horror of Ireland’s continued road carnage was nowhere more apparent than in Cork yesterday where tears streamed down the faces of mourners at the funeral of a young man cut down in his prime.

As the football anthem, You’ll Never Walk Alone, played, the remains of 22-year-old Michael Murphy was shouldered from a church in Co Cork yesterday afternoon.

The coffin was draped with a flag depicting his beloved Anfield stadium, a Liverpool jersey, the jersey of his local soccer team Castlebridge Celtic AFC, and his soccer boots.